Partnership & Collaboration
At GreenBlue we believe that the complex challenges of sustainability require diverse perspectives and coordinated efforts. We value the creation of pre-competitive spaces where stakeholders across the value chain can come together to address the issues that affect us all. Our events and programs are designed to foster connections, facilitate knowledge sharing, and enable collective problem-solving. Stay tuned for announcements of partner events in 2026!
Packaging Recycling Summit
June 15-17 2026
The Packaging Recycling Summit unites leaders from across the circular packaging value chain — CPG brands, materials suppliers, reprocessors, MRFs, retailers, and policymakers — to explore real-world solutions for advancing packaging recovery and circularity.
Over three days, attendees will gain practical strategies, insights, and connections to tackle today’s most pressing challenges in sustainable packaging design, material selection, collection, and recycling infrastructure.
Flexible Packaging Innovation and Recycling
June 24-25, 2026
This June at AMI’s Form, Function, Design: The Future of Flexible Packaging, GreenBlue’s Tom Pollock will present “Data, Labels, and the Future of Film Packaging Recovery.” Join to hear insights on building effective film recovery systems, including research from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition and the How2Recycle label, and explore how access and consumer participation can improve recovery outcomes.
Sustainable Packaging Innovation Forum USA
October 27–28, 2026 | Chicago
SPC will be supporting Innovation Forum’s Sustainable Packaging Innovation Forum USA 2026, a two-day business conference bringing together key stakeholders from across the packaging and waste value chain to explore how packaging innovation can unlock long-term business value.
As organisations move beyond viewing packaging as a cost centre, the forum will examine how decisions around materials, design and end-of-life can drive efficiency, support compliance and create new market opportunities. With increasing regulatory pressure and shifting consumer expectations, the event focuses on practical strategies to align sustainability with commercial performance.
Key themes include:
- Material and design choices – Navigating trade-offs across cost, performance and recyclability to develop packaging solutions that are fit for the future
- Aligning operations, logistics and consumer experience – Leveraging packaging as a strategic asset across the value chain to enhance efficiency, brand value and customer engagement
- What’s needed for effective compliance – Understanding evolving regulatory frameworks and the infrastructure, investment and collaboration required to deliver meaningful outcomes
- Pathways to de-risk innovation – Scaling material innovation, data systems and emerging technologies while building the internal case for investment and managing competing priorities
Speakers and participants will be announced in due course.
Register and save 10% by using the discount code SPC10 during the registration process.
Sustainable Packaging Summit
November 10-12 2026
The Sustainable Packaging Summit returns on 10 – 12 November 2026, taking place once again at the Beatrix Theatre at the Jaarbeurs Event and Exhibition Centre in Utrecht. The Summit will once again serve as the global stage for the future of packaging. After last year’s record-breaking attendance and extraordinary momentum, the 2026 edition is set to be our most influential yet, with forward-thinking content, world-leading speakers, top-tier exhibitors and a vibrant international community.
