U.S. Plastics Pact towards Circular Economy with Emily Tipaldo

The U.S. Plastics Pact brings together businesses, not-for-profit organizations, government agencies, and research institutions that work together toward a common vision of a circular economy for plastics, as outlined by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Initiative. 

This vision aims to ensure that plastics never become waste by eliminating the plastics we don’t need, innovating to ensure that the plastics we do need are reusable, recyclable, or compostable, and circulating all the plastic items we use to keep them in the economy and out of the environment.

On this episode, we'll talk about:
•What does US Plastic Pact trying to accomplish and what impact will it have?
•Why do they think plastic is the most important issue to address?
•What are the negative things that plastic packaging is doing right now to our world that the Plastic Pack is trying to solve?
•What are the biggest challenges caused by the mismanagement of plastic waste?
•Have other countries filled in the gap since China stopped buying our waste, or is it just staying here in the US and ending up in landfills?
•Water bottles made of PET and milk jugs made of polyethylene are arguably the two most widely recyclable and approved items in the US
•The shift in the investor mentality with more sustainable objectives, goals, and business model
•What role the government will have in accomplishing a lot of these changes?
•commending companies that have formed an organization, not just the companies, but everyone who signed on to the US Plastic Pact and made a voluntary commitment to openness.
•Different viewpoints on the term Recyclable
•Is it preferable to use plastic bottles over glass bottles in terms of climate change, if plastic bottles have a lower carbon footprint?

Emily Tipaldo, with more than a decade of experience with plastics, recycling, and materials management, brings her skills of stakeholder engagement, industry expertise, and passion for reducing climate change to the U.S. Plastics Pact. The U.S. Plastics Pact is a solutions-driven consortium with more than 100 diverse businesses and organizations across the plastics value chain working to rethink the way we design, use, and reuse plastics, to create a path toward a circular economy for plastic in the United States. Through previous work with the research and consulting company MORE Recycling and the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, Emily built incredible knowledge and value chain connections that support her work today as Executive Director of the U.S. Plastics Pact.
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