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Plastic Packaging Assessment

Understand your suppliers’ use of plastic in their packaging, including recyclable, reusable and compostable materials. Use insights to work with suppliers to improve and uphold circular economy commitments.

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The world is facing a plastic crisis, and businesses are at the forefront of the solution. Yet companies cannot drive meaningful change or meet their circular economy goals for plastic without considering the supply chain.

The Plastic Packaging Assessment helps you gain insight into your suppliers’ use of plastics in packaging, while asking questions in terms your suppliers can understand. Quickly identify your plastic packaging footprint and uncover your biggest opportunities for supplier improvement and plastic reduction.

Benefits

Ready to deploy

Assessment content is pre-designed and ready to be sent. Simply load your suppliers and start understanding their use of plastic packaging.

Purpose-built content

Built in alignment with global plastic initiatives and based on a review of best-practices for measuring supplier plastic packaging use.

Real-time intelligence

Supplier data populates in real-time to provide insights into your plastic footprint and opportunities for supplier improvement.

Sphera Supply Chain Sustainability Standard Assessments help you quickly create visibility, access supplier intelligence and accelerate progress toward your goals

With the Plastic Packaging Assessment, you’ll be able to…

Understand the prevalence and type of plastic in all packaging components, from zippers and caps to labels and seals
Benchmark suppliers to compare use of sustainably sourced material, percentage of post-consumer recycled content, total reusable weight and more
Track which suppliers have product certifications
Uphold internal and public-facing commitments, such as the New Plastics Economy initiative
Take action towards eliminating plastic packaging in your products in favor of sustainable alternatives

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