Sustainable Packaging Newsletter (54) Circularity 24 and more!
Circularity24 put on by Trellis Group and Jon Smieja was another very impressive event! The future of sustainability and circularity is very bright. In this newsletter I'll provide my insights both written and visual so keep scrolling and be sure to subscribe!
I'm so excited to announce that I'll be speaking at London Packaging Week in September. I hope to see you there. Let me know if you're going so we can connect. This will be my next event!
Specright Insight of the week:
PODCAST OF THE WEEK: Check out this latest episode of Sustainable Packaging Podcast with Cory Connors as I speak with the Under Secretary Alexis Taylor about the launch of their new program where they will have $100MM up for innovations in sustainable packaging and more to help farmers and the progression of sustainable packaging.
Apple Link Here to Listen and Subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%24100mm-opportunity-with-usda-under-secretary-alexis/id1566653160?i=1000657134736
Here is the recap of the Trellis Group event #circularity24
Thank you Bold Reuse for my new bling! thanks Jocelyn Gaudi Quarrell for the button and for your wisdom.
Thank you Jon Smieja for the new pin!!
a full agenda for sure! wow, so many great speakers
There was a real focus on the future of sustainability with Bryan Lewis and Jon Smieja introducing an impressive group of young leaders in this space
sponsored by Tom's of Maine who has supported this great group this year
Here is the QR code if you want to connect
Or reach out to Mr. Bryan Lewis
4 winners of the US Plastics Pact including LifeMade Products LLC and ICPG and Good Filling and IFCO SYSTEMS stay tuned for four episodes of Sustainable Packaging Podcast with Cory Connors where I'll interview each winner about their win and their company and why the USPP is so valuable to join! Be sure to join asap.
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Petros Palandjian is the CEO of Good Filling I'll post our interview soon.
A great group at the 可口可乐公司 booth talking about reuse and refill including Kim M. Berry, MBA and Bailey Rogers and Mika Unterman
Petros and Grant Rodriguez Amlani showing off the award for Good Filling , if you're interested in joining the US Plastics Pact reach out to Grant!
The amazing Emily Tipaldo is their executive Director , this was one of my favorite panels about reusable packaging standards
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Emily was the moderator and Anton Van Zyl from 可口可乐公司 and Sydney Harris from Upstream Jason Hawkins from Reusables.com and Pat Kaufman from PR3 | the Global Alliance to Advance Reuse , i learned a lot from this panel including how critical it is for companies and municipalities to be on the same page and to work with consumers to make the system work.
If you don't know Dr Jon Smieja reach out to him. He did an awesome job as the MC and so much more at this event!
well done Jon!!!
Tom Szaky is the CEO of TerraCycle and I'm thankful to be able to call him a friend and mentor. His presentation along with the brilliant Dylan Siegler an SVP at Trellis Group was really impressive.
They discussed the "Triangle Of Stagnation" including
What if you start a discuss a pilot for more sustainable packaging and that process takes 2 years, then you implement a pilot and that takes 1 year. By the time the pilot is over the turn over of the original group who started the discussion may be so great that the team that takes it over won't be engaged with the original plan. So they will start another discussion and make another commitment, then another pilot and around and around we go!
It's time to be more brave and move forward.
Another Great panel with Heather Clancy from GreenBiz and Zahra Biabani the CEO of InTheLoop and Areeb Malik from Glacier and Greg Mulholland the CEO of Citrine Informatics
Solving Sustainable Packaging issues with technology will certainly be the way!
My friends from 谷歌 , Miguel Arevalo and Robert Little gave some very insightful presentations about how google is moving to more circular and sustainable packaging, and how they are providing tools for the rest of the world to do the same.
A great presentation on Ai from Heather Clancy and Robert Little and Jenny Liu
The future is full of possibilities!
Chris McFarlane from 星巴克
Heather Watkins co founder of Bold Reuse
Madelyn Morgan from the City of Austin
Collection is the key to a successful reuse project.
It was exciting to learn that Starbucks reuse pilots have gone well and they have plans for larger scale implementation.
Bold Reuse has been doing great things with stadiums like Portland Trail Blazers @ the Rose Quarter eliminating nearly half a million single use plastic cups. With their circular and closed loop system acting locally it's working!
Remember Reuse and Refill are very different, both can work but it has to be the right environment.
Stay tuned for more next week...
Thank you all for your support of this newsletter and podcast. Reach out if I can help you move to more sustainable packaging.
Your sustainable friend,
Packaging Specialist @ Great Little Box
10 个月Great stuff Cory! Proud of all you do brother! ??
Packaging Research and Development Research Scientist
10 个月See you there!