AMERIPEN

With our follower count growing with every passing day, we’re taking this month to reintroduce ourselves! A part of AMERIPEN since our inception, Program Director Kyla Fisher plays a vital role in managing the research and educational programming that our members couldn’t live without! Kyla’s rich background in sustainable packaging brings a perspective that helps us confidently navigate nuances in the industry. Thank you, Kyla, for helping us stay focused on our core mission of a more circular economy and sustainable future through innovative packaging!

We’re lucky to have many remarkable members stepping forward to help us accomplish our lofty ambitions! If you’d like to get involved and grow your impact on the future of sustainability in packaging, consider joining an AMERIPEN committee or taskforce. More information is available on our website: https://bit.ly/3FKQ7R0

Continuing our reintroduction to all our new followers, meet Rob Keith, AMERIPEN’s Membership and Policy Director! A DMV native, Rob was born to put on a tie and advocate passionately for our cause. As the staff liaison to the government affairs committee, government affairs coalition, and membership committee, Rob focuses on membership requests and issues, engagement information, committee information, and policy resources. Thank you, Rob, for all you do to build the broad coalition AMERIPEN has supporting our mission!

AMERIPEN advocates on behalf of the entire packaging value chain, from material producers to brand owners to recycling partners – as the only organization exclusively focused on U.S. packaging policy, we meet with state and federal policymakers collaboratively with stakeholders to advance timely and critical industry objectives. Join our cause today and have your voice represented across the country: https://bit.ly/3jwALZ0

Since we have so many new followers, it's time we reintroduce our team! The hardest working person in our industry, we’re grateful to have Dan Felton at the helm of AMERIPEN as our Executive Director. Dan manages to do it all, meeting with policymakers in Washington and coast-to-coast in state legislatures, connecting with members and industry stakeholders across the packaging value chain, presenting as an authority on international stages, and so much more. It's impossible to fit Dan’s contributions in a single social media post, so we’ll stop trying. Thank you, Dan, for your never-ending commitment to our association and cause!

Our primary role is to optimize the value of packaging while minimizing any associated social, environmental, and economic challenges. Upholding our Sustainability Principles of innovation, optimization, education, advocacy, and collaboration, our members understand the significance of working across the packaging value chain to advance sustainable packaging systems. Explore their efforts to enhance end-of-life recovery and packaging reuse in their Sustainability Stories here: https://bit.ly/3YkdcBp.

Thank you to all who joined us throughout the past few months for our latest EPR webinar series! The live sessions may be in the past, but the information presented is as important and relevant as ever – if you weren’t able to attend live, you can still catch the recordings! More information is available here: https://bit.ly/3vOXaGG

AMERIPEN is dedicated to a more sustainable future through thoughtful packaging design, with the understanding that no solution is “one size fits all”. Learn more about our association and mission in this short video: https://bit.ly/4cl2t0n

Happy 4th of July from all of us at AMERIPEN! We’re grateful to live in a country with a legislative process that allows for feedback and input – our government always works better when more voices join the conversation!

Our Annual Summit in April brought together industry professionals from across the packaging value chain, with new connections and insightful presentations that will support and inform our members for years to come. Relive the week in our recap and key takeaways here: https://bit.ly/4daaS8d