A multi-year partnership of food-service industry leaders founded by Starbucks and McDonald’s, the NextGen Consortium addresses single-use food packaging waste globally. NextGen Cup is the first Consortium initiative and aims to advance recoverable solutions for the fiber, hot and cold, to-go cup system.

We are leading a multi-stakeholder research effort to produce a landscape study on transformational technologies for post-consumer plastics. The report aims to inform investment strategies for consumer brands, chemical companies, and investment firms.

Through the China Program at Closed Loop Partners, we’re building bridges between Chinese companies and trade associations and U.S. investment opportunities and investors in the circular economy space.

We’ve teamed up with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition to challenge the best and brightest entrepreneurs to innovate around the recovery of materials from multi-material flexible packaging, which is the fastest growing segment of the packaging sector.

Intelligent Product Initiative

​The Center for the Circular Economy is partnering with EON Group on a ​global industry-wide initiative. Connect Fashion will design a framework for how intelligent digital assets and the connectivity of the internet of things will power transparency, sustainability and circularity across fashion, apparel and retail.