Sustainable Packaging Innovation Forum USA

27th - 28th October 2026

Chicago, USA

Christine Yeager

Impact Consultant

Independent

Christine Yeager is a strategic project leader and sustainability expert with more than 15 years in consumer-packaged goods. At Coca-Cola, she led complex cross-functional initiatives in sustainability strategy, packaging innovation, and technology implementation, setting enterprise direction on circular packaging and translating it into clear, compelling communications.

As founder of CSY Impact Consulting, she helps brands and retailers navigate Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and embed circularity into core strategy. A key architect of Circular Action Alliance’s producer engagement framework, she sits at the intersection of policy fluency, corporate operations, and stakeholder trust.

Christine is known for turning shifting regulation into practical business advantage. She prioritizes designing programs that reduce risk, optimize cost, and deliver measurable environmental outcomes. She also hosts the Change Cycle podcast, interviewing leaders across business, policy, and activism about how real change happens and what it takes to build an economy powered by circularity and equity.

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Day 0

Monday 26th October 2026

Time
Session title
Session type
17:00 - 18:00
Day 1

Tuesday 27th October 2026

Time
Session title
Session type
08:45 - 08:55
Welcome words 
Institute of Packaging Professionals
09:15 - 10:00
EPR compliance infrastructure: What do the rules require and what can the market deliver? 
RecycleMe | ALDI USA | Unilever | The Recycling Partnership
Plenary
10:00 - 10:45
Plenary
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:40
‘Design for recycling’: Why we need more dialogue between upstream and downstream 
Kenvue | Sustainable Packaging Podcast with Cory Connors, presented by Atlantic Packaging
Breakout
11:40 - 12:20
Plenary
12:20 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:30
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:15
15:30 - 16:15
Hard-to-recycle packaging: Lessons for cross-industry collaboration 
L'Oréal | Ulta Beauty | Pact Collective | Independent
Case study
16:15 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Day 2

Wednesday 28th October 2026

Time
Session title
Session type
08:45 - 08:55
08:50 - 09:30
Case study
09:50 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:10
Reuse at scale: What works, what doesn’t, and pathways forward 
Mastercard | Tomra | Sustainable Packaging Coalition
Plenary
11:10 - 11:50
Circular economy as industrial strategy: How to build stronger value chains and local economies 
Martin Brower | Washington State Department of Commerce | WRAP | PR3
Plenary
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:20
Plenary