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SPC Advance 2026

Greenplaces attended SPC Advance 2026 in San Diego, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition's fall gathering on packaging and EPR.

  • Supplier programs
  • Retail & consumer
SPC Advance

About this event

SPC Advance is the Sustainable Packaging Coalition's annual fall event, organized by GreenBlue and open to SPC member companies. Since 2014 it has brought together sustainability, packaging, and compliance professionals from across the value chain — brands, converters, material suppliers, recyclers, and the analysts and regulators shaping the rules — to work through the regulatory, market, and recovery realities reshaping packaging. The 2026 edition ran September 28–29 at the Town and Country Resort in San Diego, with programming centered on EPR implementation across the states, California's SB 54 and source-reduction requirements, eco-modulated fees, and the moving targets for recyclability and end-market economics. The co-located How2Recycle Summit followed on September 30.

It's built for the people who have to turn packaging regulation into producer reports, design decisions, and defensible data — and it's where much of the packaging industry aligns on what's actually coming next.

Why we went

Packaging EPR has become one of the most active fronts in sustainability reporting, and it runs on the same underlying data our customers already build with us: product-level footprints, LCAs, and supplier data that feeds producer reports, retailer scorecards, and disclosure frameworks alike. A number of Greenplaces customers are SPC members and were in the room, so this was a chance to spend two days with them, hear firsthand how the EPR and litigation era is landing on their teams, and sharpen how we support them.

We weren't speaking or exhibiting. Our team went to listen, connect with customers and prospects across the packaging value chain, and bring back a clearer read on where packaging compliance is headed in 2027.

Where it was

Town and Country Resort & Convention Center San Diego, CA

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