Crystal Bayliss

 

Director, Strategy and Engagement

Plenary Speaker


Creating A Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging Beyond 2025 Plans

General Session II

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

11:20 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.

(see full conference schedule)

Presentation Description:


2025 is right around the corner. Despite numerous voluntary commitments, we still have a long way to go in creating a circular economy for plastic packaging to keep plastic in the economy and out of the environment. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the network of global Plastics Pacts, including the U.S. Plastics Pact and the Canada Plastics Pact, are releasing updated Targets and beyond 2025 Roadmaps in the effort to fight plastic waste. Additionally, the United Nations is nearing the end of negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty, and four U.S. states are implementing Extended Producer Responsibility. In this session, I will share an update on new Targets and planned actions from voluntary commitment organizations as well as how that framework of voluntary commitments is influencing policy at the state and global level.

Speaker Biography:

With fifteen years of supply chain experience in the consumer-packaged goods industry, Crystal developed a passion for the circular economy after buying rigid plastics as a category manager in procurement. She has experience working with colleagues and suppliers to design materials that are more circular in nature, as well as educating and engaging business partners to understand how their individual actions were critical to collective sustainability initiatives. Crystal joined the U.S. Plastics Pact in 2022, and serves as Director of Strategy & Engagement. She is responsible for overseeing the execution of the U.S. Pact Roadmap to 2025 and engaging individual Activators on their progress toward Roadmap Targets. Crystal’s experience leading cross-functional teams and external partnerships is helping the U.S. Plastics Pact in its effort to bring together the entire value chain to move toward a circular economy and solve the plastics waste crisis.