REPORTS
Research conducted by NextGen Consortium Partners, supporting our work to accelerate the future of foodservice packaging––through innovative material solutions, scalable reuse systems and stronger materials recovery and recycling infrastructure.
Bringing Reusable Packaging Systems to Life: Lessons Learned from Scaling Reusable Cups
Our report, “Bringing Reusable Packaging Systems to Life,” guides you through the learnings gathered thus far during this multi-year program, exploring the different facets of reuse models–and the systems within those models that produce, distribute, monitor, collect and sanitize cups to enable their use hundreds of times by as many consumers, across a range of differing environments.
Closing the Loop on Cups
To-go paper cups are ubiquitous, everyday items that we all interact with. They are also a highly visible representation of our disposable, take-make-waste culture. Every year, we use an estimated 250 billion cups globally—the majority of which end up in landfills after a single-use. In this report, we focus on paper cup recovery, by assessing critical nodes of the paper cup recovery value chain—paper mills, material recovery facilities, brands, consumers and local communities—to demonstrate how, together, these stakeholders can sustain a market for paper cup recycling. Each has a unique and critical role to play in enabling cup recycling.