GreenBlue Forum – London 2025

London | November 17 | 2025

At the GreenBlue Forum London 2025, we’re inviting a curated group of our strategic stakeholders to a one day, invite-only event focused on the global adoption and implementation of EPR. Momentum is building, but without a harmonized, global approach, we risk fragmentation instead of progress.

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Why Now?

Based on feedback from our valued members, few in the world are connecting the dots between recyclability, material choice, and EPR guidance like we are in North America. In this watershed moment, the need to reach across borders, markets, and varying barriers is at an inflection point with collaborative solutions needed not today, not tomorrow, but yesterday.

With active participation from strategic stakeholders, we will help to provide clarity and direction on best practices to adapt to a world of EPR.

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Materials Not Created Equal

We’ll explore how EPR & consumer’s are impacting material choice, strategies to move forward

What’s This Going to Cost?

Gain an understanding of trends in EPR fees by region, material

Transform Your Portfolio

Unlock your packaging portfolio by exploring new materials, formats while considering EPR costs and recyclability

Redefining Recyclability

How EPR is redefining recyclability, and what implications that may have on your portfolio

Program

Morning | November 17 2025

8:00 am – 8:15 am | Arrival & Check- in (please bring ID)

8:15 am – 9:00 am | Breakfast & Networking

9:00 am – 9:10 am | Welcome with Paul Nowak, Executive Director, GreenBlue

9:10 am – 9:20 am

Presentation | Changing Materials in The Context of EPR

As more EPR programs in the U.S., UK, and EU start to outline the programs and set fees for producers, one thing is clear – materials will not be treated equally. Certain materials, especially difficult-to-recycle flexible packaging, are going to be charged higher fees, and producers will need to determine if their long-term strategy should revolve around accepting these costs or redesigning packaging to use lower-cost materials. Meanwhile, consumer acceptance and expectations around materials are also changing. There are no easy decisions, but opportunities for industry alignment abound. Learn from your peers and discuss shared strategies and ways forward.

9:20 am – 10: 00 am | Discussion by tables

10:00 am – 10:30 am | Networking Break

10:30 am -10:45 am

Presentation | At a Glance: EPR Fees by Region and Material

Averaged EPR fees by broad material types and regions can give us valuable insights into the long-term implications of these programs on global packaging portfolios. If your organization hasn’t done this already, this presentation will put you on the fast track to understanding the trend lines for EPR fees for different materials, regions, and where to go from here.

Speaker: Michelle Carvell, COO, Lorax EPI

10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Workshop | Scenario Modeling to Uncover Costs and Opportunities

It’s time to zoom out and look at the bigger picture – the opportunity to unlock other materials and formats when the full cost of EPR fees is considered. In this workshop, we’ll be using mock global packaging portfolios to play with three packaging design and EPR compliance scenarios – a status quo scenario that involves minimal redesign and high fees, a middle-road scenario with some redesign to lower-fee materials like paper, and a system redesign scenario that uses avoided fees to fund a transformation to reusable and biobased packaging.
Afternoon | November 17 2025

8:00 am – 8:15 am | Arrival & Check- in (please bring ID)

8:15 am – 9:00 am | Breakfast & Networking

9:00 am – 9:10 am | Welcome with Paul Nowak, Executive Director, GreenBlue

9:10 am – 9:20 am

Presentation | Changing Materials in The Context of EPR

As more EPR programs in the U.S., UK, and EU start to outline the programs and set fees for producers, one thing is clear – materials will not be treated equally. Certain materials, especially difficult-to-recycle flexible packaging, are going to be charged higher fees, and producers will need to determine if their long-term strategy should revolve around accepting these costs or redesigning packaging to use lower-cost materials. Meanwhile, consumer acceptance and expectations around materials are also changing. There are no easy decisions, but opportunities for industry alignment abound. Learn from your peers and discuss shared strategies and ways forward.

9:20 am – 10: 00 am | Discussion by tables

10:00 am – 10:30 am | Networking Break

10:30 am -10:45 am

Presentation | At a Glance: EPR Fees by Region and Material

Averaged EPR fees by broad material types and regions can give us valuable insights into the long-term implications of these programs on global packaging portfolios. If your organization hasn’t done this already, this presentation will put you on the fast track to understanding the trend lines for EPR fees for different materials, regions, and where to go from here.

Speaker: Michelle Carvell, COO, Lorax EPI

10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Workshop | Scenario Modeling to Uncover Costs and Opportunities

It’s time to zoom out and look at the bigger picture – the opportunity to unlock other materials and formats when the full cost of EPR fees is considered. In this workshop, we’ll be using mock global packaging portfolios to play with three packaging design and EPR compliance scenarios – a status quo scenario that involves minimal redesign and high fees, a middle-road scenario with some redesign to lower-fee materials like paper, and a system redesign scenario that uses avoided fees to fund a transformation to reusable and biobased packaging.

Speakers

Paul Nowak

Executive Director

GreenBlue

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Olga Kachook

Director, SPC

GreenBlue

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Michelle Carvell

Director and COO

Lorax EPI

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Venue

etc.venues Monument

etc.venues Monument offers productive spaces with pops of colour and plenty of natural light, “The Brain Box,” an inspiring space with fun and eclectic decor on the wall, a pick-and-mix, and a foosball table for more informal and creative brainstorming sessions.

The location is in close proximity to four Mainline overground stations: Liverpool Street, Fenchurch Street, London Bridge, and Cannon Street.

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