Pactiv Evergreen earns ISCC Plus certifications at four US facilities

Pactiv Evergreen Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of fresh foodservice and food merchandising products and fresh beverage cartons based in Lake Forest, Illinois, has announced that four of its manufacturing facilities were recently awarded International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus designation. The company adds that three of those facilities were recognized for the third year in a row.

ISCC Plus is an internationally recognized certification process for bio-based and recycled resins, which audits the supply chain from end to end.

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Pactiv Evergreen’s manufacturing facilities in Bridgeview, Illinois; Mooresville, South Carolina; Corsicana, Texas; and Malvern, Arkansas, received the certificate from SCS Global Services, Emeryville, California. The company says processes currently located at the certified sites include extrusion and thermoforming, and the products made in these facilities serve the foodservice and food merchandising markets.

The company says it aims to achieve ISCC Plus certification at additional manufacturing facilities this year to provide its customers with as many options as possible to meet their sustainability goals.

“Pactiv Evergreen produces thousands of products in more than a dozen materials that protect, package and display fresh food and beverages,” says Tim Levenda, president of Pactiv Evergreen’s foodservice business unit. “Our broad material expertise enables us to support our customers quickly and effectively as they seek more sustainable products. Our ISCC Plus certification allows Pactiv Evergreen to provide our customers products made from certified bio-based and circular plastics.”

To achieve the ISCC Plusdesignation, manufacturing facilities must produce materials that meet the ISCC’s rigorous standards for recycled, renewable or recycled-renewable materials, and provide traceability along the supply chain, while meeting ISCC’s high environmental and social standards. Pactiv Evergreen says this certification assures its customers of products’ material composition, which helps them to achieve their packaging sustainability goals. With the certification, the company says it can produce products substituting a percentage or 100 percent of the virgin resin with certified circular polymers, delivering material performance that is identical to virgin feedstock.

“We are thrilled to better support our customers as they endeavor to have a positive impact on the environment,” Pactiv Evergreen Chief Sustainability Officer Lynn Dyer says. “We’re committed to our company’s purpose of ‘Packaging a Better Future’ by providing innovative, sustainable solutions. This certification positions Pactiv Evergreen to make additional progress toward our goal that by 2030, 100 percent of our products will be made with recycled, recyclable or renewable materials.”

According to Pactiv Evergreen, the certification:

• allows the company to bring in-demand certified circular products to market, presenting customers with options for advanced recycled materials and renewable materials on a mass balance basis to meet their sustainability goals;
• crosses multiple product lines, allowing customers the potential to leverage the company’s expertise across a number of materials and processes for certified resins;
• validates the mass balance approach, tracking the quantity and sustainability characteristics of recycled and/or renewable content in the value chain and attributing it based on verifiable bookkeeping with predefined and transparency requirements; and
• accelerates the transition away from virgin fossil fuel use by allowing recycled and/or renewable feedstocks to be processes on the company’s existing world-scale assets.

Based on a mass balance approach, Pactiv Evergreen says its packaging would have the option of supporting customers with ISCC Plus-certified recycled and/or renewable materials.