SPC Advance 2026

Packaging professionals are forging a new frontier as regulatory, market, and recovery realities reshape sustainability. At SPC Advance 2026, we’re excited to gather sustainable packaging leaders together to navigate today’s changes toward tomorrow’s compliance.

What to Expect at SPC Advance 2026

• Meet with your extended sustainable packaging team: Reconnect with your colleagues across companies, partners, and the team behind SPC’s research and Collaborative working groups. Build the partnerships you need to see your sustainable packaging strategy succeed.
  
  
• Find clarity on EPR, PCR mandates, and labeling laws: Understand the status of EPR programs, PCR mandates, and labeling laws — and the intersections of these regulations. Hear from the analysts, regulators, and producers navigating regulations from legislative introduction to implementation.
  
  
• Industry Intel: Get insights and research to take back to your team. At SPC Advance, get exclusive access to new research, industry data, and expert insights to share with your team. Leave with practical takeaways on the new standards for sustainable packaging.
  
  
• Regulatory Updates: Create clarity on regulations like California’s SB 54, understand new source reduction requirements, and learn how producers are navigating new eco-modulated fees.
  
  
• Recovery Economics: Get guidance on the moving targets for packaging recyclability, the evolving economics of end markets, and recycling rate targets across states.
  
  
• Consumer Education: Hear insights on consumers’ perceptions of packaging sustainability, recyclability, labeling, and recycled content to help keep the circularity loop closed.
  
  
• Building Buy-in: Get the data you need to “make the case” to your leadership for sustainability investments. Companies prioritizing sustainable packaging today will define packaging’s next chapter.