SPC Engage 2019: London

Drawing on her 20 years of experience in the deeply disrupted news media industry Kristen will share creative and pragmatic lessons for when your goal is to deliver on commitments to customers and the environment, and create a sustainable business, whilst the market, technologies and policies are constantly evolving around you. How to turn ideas into reality, and how to build up resilience in teams for when things don’t go exactly as planned. 

In this kick-off presentation, SPC, INCPEN and EUROPEN will set the scene on the theme of the conference — corporate goals, specifically sustainable packaging goals, including a discussion on why companies are setting them, the types of goals companies are setting, and related existing voluntary and legislative frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), EU Plastics Strategy, New Plastics Economy, Bioeconomy and others.  

This session will cover the quickly-evolving legislation in the UK and across Europe, with perspectives and examples from national and regional stakeholders on key challenges, and how policy and legislation are addressing the key issues around used packaging and recovery in this region.

Enjoy a lunch at the Design Museum then visit the Designer, Maker, User Exhibit at The Design Museum, or get some fresh air in Holland Park.

Tristanne Davis, Senior Manager SPC, GreenBlue interviewing Louis Lindenberg, Global Packaging Sustainability Director, Unilever.

The New Plastics Economy is a global initiative that brings together key stakeholders from across the plastics value chain behind a common vision of a circular economy for plastics, where plastic never becomes waste or pollution.

In the transition to a circular economy for plastics the way we design, use and reuse plastics is changing. This session will provide an overview of the shared ambitions and initial action taken globally.  

2018 and 2019 have seen an explosion of voluntary, time-bound sustainable packaging commitments, particularly related to plastics. During this session, experts will discuss commitments including: Plastics Europe’s ‘Plastics 2030’, the UK Plastics Pact, and The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy’s Global Commitment. 

Through this panel conversation, attendees will learn the latest updates on how these commitments are being monitored and executed on the ground and also explore specific examples of packaging innovation from brands and the waste management industry to meet commitments, but also go beyond them through the innovation route to fulfill their corporate sustainability goals.

In this panel we will hear from retailers who have become a driving force and a leading voice when it comes to implementing packaging sustainability goals and commitments and driving sustainable innovation within their own private label brands and influencing their supply chain partners.

In this session we will showcase the major on-package labeling schemes in the UK and Europe as well as SPC’s North American How2Recycle Label which provide key frameworks to communicate sustainability to consumers and enable a circular economy as well as their role in influencing packaging redesign and recovery.