Sustainability became a requirement.
We’ll help you simplify it.

A 45-minute session on reducing compliance risk, EPR cost, and carbon with paperboard, plus a clear-eyed look at where packaging actually stands in 2026.

JULY 14, 2026 · 10:00 AM CT · 45 MINUTES · PRESENTATION + LIVE Q&A

The Reality Check

No packaging is perfect, and we won’t pretend otherwise. But paper-based packaging keeps improving performance, while maintaining recyclability, and aligning with new legislative goals.

69%

Paper packaging recycling rate in 2023, the highest material return in the U.S.

<1%

Of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from the pulp and paper sector.

We’ll give you the honest version, with the data behind it.

Why now?

Sustainability in packaging has moved from a brand differentiator to a complex regulatory requirement. Seven states have passed Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws, covering about one in five Americans, and sixteen more are studying or drafting their own. That adds a new cost to the packaging you put on the shelf, and the decision now pulls in procurement, sustainability, marketing, sales, and finance at once. Those efforts don’t always connect.

This session is about lightening the burden for all these groups and reducing your EPR obligations.

What We'll Cover:

Where sustainability, procurement, marketing, and finance pull apart, and how Malnove ties the decision together
EPR cost savings, and how lightweighting captures them. One switch from SBS to FBB took 13% out of board weight
Carbon savings from smarter material choices. For one customer, moving to recycled paperboard cut carbon 78% and reduced board weight by 32%
The move from plastic to paper: poly alternatives, recyclability, and what consumers think
The flexibility of paperboard, and the range of options it gives you

Who Should Attend?

Packaging and procurement leads, sustainability and packaging engineers, and the marketing and finance partners who share these decisions. If folding cartons touch your product, this is for you.