Date/Time: January 17, 2023 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT)

At VERGE 22, the U.S. Plastics Pact and Walmart introduced the winners of the primary Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, exhibiting thrilling improvements within the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse. The significance of round options is twofold: holding plastic out of the surroundings and lowering emissions related to creating virgin packaging supplies. In an hour-long webinar, GreenBiz’s Jon Smieja will chat with leaders from the U.S. Pact, Walmart and the 4 winners to go deeper into their improvements and the way they may help speed up the round transition. Among the many matters they may cowl:

• Contemplating the patron expertise when designing for circularity
• Areas the place we urgently want round options
• Getting circularity to scale

Tune in to study these thrilling improvements and why addressing plastic waste should be a essential element of each enterprise’s local weather motion technique. Check out Walmart’s Round Connector platform.

Moderator:

• Jon Smieja, VP, Circularity & Senior Analyst, GreenBiz Group

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• Emily Tipaldo, Govt Director, U.S. Plastics Pact
• Ashley Corridor, Director, Sustainable Packaging, Walmart
• Cheryl Lam, Director, Non-public Manufacturers Sustainability Initiatives, Walmart
• Lauren Sweeney, Co-Founder and CEO, DeliverZero
• Ed Haedt, Director of Enterprise Improvement, Amcor Flexibles North America
• Michael Sands, Co-Founder/Ceo, Smile Compostables Options
• Mark Pszczolkowski, Principal R&D Scientist, The Clorox Company

If you cannot tune in stay, please register and we’ll e-mail you a hyperlink to entry the webcast recording and assets, obtainable to you on-demand after the stay webcast.