Sustainable Packaging Coalition USA

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Sustainable Packaging Coalition (USA)

• Ongoing initiative by Companies in the USA
• membership continues to expand
• Produced Definition of Sustainable Packaging
  document
• EUROPEN discussed number times with G Houlder
• On agenda last two RAC meetings
• Key concerns for EUROPEN members summarised in
  May 15 paper
• ad hoc EUROPEN SPC Liaison Task Force set up to
  discuss how EUROPEN could positively contribute
  to this initiative
• July 14 paper circulated

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Sustainable Packaging Coalition (USA)

• CONCLUSIONS of ad hoc EUROPEN SPC Liaison Task
  Force
• Need alignment of long term vision in the USA and
  Europe
• Could support summary page wording as a common
  long term vision for sustainable packaging.
  provided
• Definition changed to Principles of
  Sustainable Packaging
• Recovery is used in place of recycling (first
  paragraph, summary page)
• General concern about how this long term vison
  might be interpreted in Europe by environmental
  NGOs and legislators.
• wording in subsequent explanatory pages not
  sufficiently robust for the European situation

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Sustainable Packaging Coalition (USA)

• RECOMMENDATONS of ad hoc EUROPEN SPC Liaison Task
  Force
• EUROPEN.
• Supports the overall SPC vision and eight
  principles outlined in the SPC summary page
• with the understanding that they must be viewed
  collectively and not individually and there is no
  implied hierarchy.
• Develops with its members a strategy as to how
  this vision might be interpreted and approached
  within the European context.
• Encourages its member companies to understand
  their environmental footprints according to these
  eight principles and consider setting their own
  internal improvement targets where desirable.