Webinar: New Horizons in Recycling Infrastructure - How plastic credits can create new revenue streams and flexible recycled material claims by Sustainable Packaging Coalition

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About This Webinar

A key component and differentiator within the Recycled Material Standard, Attribute of Recycled Content (ARC) credits are tradable commodities representing increased material produced via new recycling investments. With benefits for recycling processors, material brokers, packaging manufacturers, and consumer-facing brands, ARC’s are proving to be the bridge between current material availabilities and the envisioned future state of the recycling ecosystem.

Come learn how ARC’s are being utilized in practice and how they are creating additional value for companies across the packaging and recycling supply chain. In this session, you’ll hear perspectives from three different vantage points: Recycler, Trader, and Purchaser. Moderated by GreenBlue’s own Dr. Laura Thompson, this panel will provide insights into new value streams and profit centers within the expanding vision of what recycling means in the future.

Presenters

Martha Issa

Senior Director of Sustainability. Veritiv

Martha Issa serves as the Senior Director of Sustainability at Veritiv (NYSE: VRTV) where she applies her engineering and marketing background to strategize, design, and implement Veritiv’s sustainable product footprint. Based in Atlanta, GA, Veritiv is a Fortune 500® company and a leading North American business-to-business distribution solutions company. Previously, Martha served in management roles within Veritiv’s Facility Solutions and Marketing teams. She has been with Veritiv for more than 15 years developing and implementing enterprise-wide strategies.

Prior to Veritiv, Martha worked with Accenture LLC, Latin American Association (LAA), and Unilever-BestFoods, Unilever-Home & Personal Care, and Unilever-Central America.

Bi-lingual in English and Spanish, she holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the
Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador and is a graduate of Instituto Superior De
Economia y Administracion De Empresas where she secured a Master of Business
Administration (MBA).

Angela Choi

Trader, ACT Commodities

Angela Choi is a Trader at ACT Commodities Inc., where she leads circular solutions. ACT is the world’s leading provider of market-based sustainability solutions. As an enabler of the global energy transition, ACT helps organizations achieve their climate targets, no matter how ambitious. Since 2009, ACT has become a trusted brand in high-impact climate projects, green electricity markets, renewable energies and energy efficiency, emission allowances and carbon offsets.

Prior to ACT, Angela worked in the petrochemical industry, through which she developed a passion for plastic recycling, ocean bound plastic waste reduction, and circular textiles. She holds a B.A. in Rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley.

Greg Janson

President and CEO, Granite Peak Plastics

Greg Janson is currently the President and CEO of Granite Peak Plastics and Blue Ocean Composites. Greg has spent a lifetime in the recycling industry and the last 25 years in leadership and entrepreneurial roles. He is passionate about converting challenging streams of waste plastic into superior products.

After growing up working in recycling plants for his family’s business Greg received a BA from Purdue University and spent eight years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Upon leaving the Marines in 1998 Greg held positions as Plant Manager, Market Area General Manager, COO, and CEO of QRS Inc. where he focused on building and operating Material Recover Facilities.
In 2015 Greg co-founded and served as CEO of Re-Poly LLC, a plastic reclaimer handling challenging waste streams of mixed, post-consumer plastic. In 2018 he co-founded Evertrak LLC, a composite material molder.

In 2020 Re-Poly was purchased by the Granite Peak Group. From 2020 to the present Greg has served as the President and CEO of Granite Peak Plastics and Blue Ocean Composites.
Greg lives in St. Louis, MO with his wife, Jennifer, where they have raised six children.

Dr. Laura Thompson

Advisor, GreenBlue Navigate

Laura Thompson, PhD, is an Advisor for GreenBlue Navigate. Laura joined GreenBlue in 2018 after serving as the Director of Sustainability for Sappi, a multi-national pulp and paper company. Laura received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and her Masters and PhD from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology.

Laura spent over 20 years in the pulp and paper industry in a breadth of capacities including R&D, mill environmental, coated fine paper and packaging, as well as sustainable development. When she’s not trying to save the world, you can find Laura playing pickleball, paddling a kayak or traveling with her partner Wendy.