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The US launches a national Plastics Pact, supported by all sectors
In August 2020, the US Plastics Pact brought brands, governments and NGOs into one voluntary framework with shared targets.
In August 2020 the United States joined the global network of Plastics Pacts with a national chapter that put brands, retailers, governments and NGOs behind one set of voluntary circular-packaging targets.
GHD shared the launch because voluntary frameworks do real preparatory work: they align definitions, surface the data gaps and build the coalitions that later harden into law. Much of the recycled-content policy that followed walked through doors the Pact opened.
What the US system delivers today, measured: the US PET recycling rate analysis.
From the GHD Americas newsroom archive. Originally shared on August 28, 2020.
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