TIPA has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact (U.S. Pact), a solutions-focused consortium that brings together partners across the entire plastics value chain to reach a unified vision of a circular economy for plastics. The U.S. Pactâs vision is a world where plastics never become waste by eliminating the plastics we donât need, ensuring that the plastics we do need are reusable, recyclable, or compostable, and circulating all the plastics we use to keep them in the economy and out of the environment.Â
As part of the U.S. Plastics Pact, Activators like TIPA recognize that significant, systemwide change is imperative to realize a circular economy for plastics. As such, the U.S. Pact is convening more than 130 businesses, retailers, not-for-profit organizations, government agencies, and research institutions across the plastics value chain to bring one voice to U.S. packaging through national initiatives and innovative solutions for rethinking products, packaging, and business models.
âAt TIPA, we believe that the future of packaging must align with natureâs own cycleâwhere materials break down and return to the earth without leaving harmful waste behind,â says Rodrigo Castaneda, VP/GM North America at TIPA. âBy joining the U.S. Plastics Pact, we are strengthening our commitment to driving systemic change in the packaging industry, ensuring that compostable solutions play a key role in the transition to a circular economy. Collaboration is essential to solving the global plastics crisis, and we are proud to be part of this collective effort to redefine the future of packaging.â
âThe U.S. Plastics Pact continues to break new ground and make progress toward a more circular economy for plastics packaging in the U.S.,â says Emily Tipaldo, U.S. Pact Executive Director. âWithout the work of the U.S. Pact and its Activators, we would not see the level of national alignment and desire for a universal instrument to address plastic pollution.â
Achieving this vision will require new levels of accountability from all facets of the plastics supply chain. The U.S. Pact emphasizes measurable change and as such TIPA is committed to transparent, annual reporting, WWFâs ReSource: Plastic Footprint Tracker, which will be used to document annual progress against the U.S. Pactâs four targets. The U.S. Pactâs âRoadmap to 2025â identifies key milestones and national solutions to achieving the U.S. targets and realize a circular economy in which plastic never becomes waste. Its âBaseline Reportâ illustrates where the journey begins and where the U.S. Pact will focus efforts to propel the monumental change required to create a circular economy for plastic packaging.