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From the Watchlist to the Main Stage: Smart Plastic Pitches for Startup of the Year at Trellis Impact 26

Our Chief Sustainability Officer Suma Pakki takes the Startup Day Mainstage in San Francisco this week, pitching ECLIPSE™ as a Materials finalist for Trellis Group's Startup of the Year.

Five weeks ago, we asked you to vote. You did. Today we can say it plainly: Smart Plastic Technologies advanced out of the Materials field of Trellis’s Startups to Watch competition to the in-person finale, and we are in the running to be named Trellis Group’s Startup of the Year.

The deciding pitches happen live during the Startups to Watch Finale on the Startup Day Mainstage — Wednesday, June 24, 9:00–10:30 a.m. at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Suma Pakki and Yaman Peksenar are carrying the SPTek ECLIPSE™ story into the room, in front of thousands of the operators, buyers, and investors who actually move this industry, with leading climate investors as judges.

What Trellis Impact Actually Is

Trellis Impact is not a trade show with a recycling booth in the corner. It is the premier gathering for sustainable business, convening roughly 2,500 leaders, 300-plus speakers, and 100-plus sessions across the people who turn climate ideas into deployed solutions: Fortune 500 decision-makers, climate-tech founders, and the capital that funds them.

The program is organized around five tracks that, read together, describe the whole arc of the clean economy:

  • Close the Loop — designing waste out of the system through circular business models
  • Decarbonize Operations — electrification, efficiency, and supply-chain change
  • Draw Down Carbon — carbon removal, from engineered tech to nature-based approaches
  • Power the Future — the clean energy transition and modern grid
  • Unlock Startup Innovation — bridging emerging technology to real market adoption

Smart Plastic lives at the intersection of the first and the last. “Close the Loop” is the entire premise of our company: a polyolefin should perform during its useful life, stay recyclable while it is needed, and then, if it escapes recovery, return to nature instead of fragmenting into permanent pollution. “Unlock Startup Innovation” is the bridge we are crossing right now, from validated science to deployed product.

The Competition, and the Company We’re Keeping

Startups to Watch is a fast-pitch competition across three strategic categories: Data Center Solutions, Material Innovation, and Climate Adaptation. Trellis named the top finalists in each, ran virtual pitch webinars with community voting, and now brings the standouts to the in-person finale. One company walks away as Startup of the Year. Last year that title went to DexMat.

The finale field is a genuinely strong, cross-category group. Joining Smart Plastic on the Startup Day Mainstage are Skyven Technologies, Helix Earth, Airloom Energy, and Mojave Energy Systems — companies working on industrial heat, efficiency, and clean energy. We are the materials answer in that lineup: the one rethinking what plastic becomes after its useful life. Being measured against companies of that caliber, judged by investors from Engine Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Voyager Ventures, VoLo Earth, and At One Ventures, is exactly the kind of pressure a deployment-ready solution should welcome.

It matters that this recognition comes from Trellis specifically. Trellis sets its eligibility bar at Seed-to-Series-A companies that are incorporated, staffed, and have a product ready to test or deploy — traction over hype. That is the conversation we want to be in.

Why a Pitch Competition Is Strategy, Not a Side Quest

For a startup fighting an entrenched industry, visibility is leverage. The plastics value chain is slow to change, and some of the loudest voices in end-of-life standards have incentives to keep things as they are. A stage like Trellis Impact lets us make our case directly to the people who can adopt ECLIPSE™ — brand owners, converters, and packaging buyers — without waiting for permission from the gatekeepers.

The recognition also arrives at a moment when capital is flowing to climate companies that can show results rather than slides. We are not pitching a concept. SPTek ECLIPSE™ is a drop-in additive at roughly 1% inclusion that requires no retooling, is FDA-compliant for food contact (GRAS), and runs on existing extrusion lines. Independent testing validates bio-assimilation across marine, terrestrial, and anaerobic landfill conditions, with no microplastic residue left behind. And the model is already working in market: more than $1.1M in sales through Q1 2026 and a manufacturing partnership with Sigma Plastics.

That is the difference we will put in front of the judges. Most material solutions ask the world to rebuild its infrastructure first. SPTek ECLIPSE™ asks for one percent.

A Bigger Standard, Not a Bigger Promise

Whatever the judges decide this week, the meaning is the same. Smart Plastic is being taken seriously, on the main stage of sustainable business, as a materials company with science behind it and product in the market. That is how a new standard takes hold: not by shouting louder than the incumbents, but by showing buyers and partners that a better end-of-life outcome is available today, at almost no added cost.

To everyone who voted, shared, and believed plastic should be engineered with its full lifecycle in mind: thank you. You helped get us here.

If you are at Trellis Impact 26, watch the Startups to Watch Finale on the Startup Day Mainstage Wednesday morning, and come find Suma and Yaman afterward. Let’s build a smarter standard together.

Smart Plastic Technologies develops materials solutions designed to improve plastic end-of-life outcomes. Its platform, including SPTek ECLIPSE™, is built to work with conventional polyolefins (PE and PP) while supporting a more responsible path when plastic is not recovered. Learn more at changetheplastic.com.
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Smart Plastic Named One of Trellis’s 15 Climate Tech Startups to Watch in 2026

Trellis’s annual list goes beyond a simple shoutout. Selected startups get profiled on Trellis.net, pitch in webinars to climate executives and investors, and compete for Startup of the Year at Trellis Impact 26 in San Francisco.

Smart Plastic Technologies is honored to be selected as one of Trellis’s 15 Climate Tech Startups to Watch in 2026. This recognition highlights early-stage innovators in categories like material innovation, where Smart Plastic fits perfectly with our SPTek ECLIPSE™ platform.

Why Trellis Recognition Matters

Trellis’s annual list goes beyond a simple shoutout. Selected startups get profiled on Trellis.net, pitch in webinars to climate executives and investors, and compete for a shot at 'Startup of the Year' at Trellis Impact 26 in San Francisco. Community voting helps determine finalists at the May 27 webinar pitches, creating real momentum for deployment-ready solutions like Smart Plastic's ECLIPSE™.

For climate tech, this visibility accelerates partnerships with operators, buyers, and funders who prioritize traction over hype. It is especially timely as investors wrote $40.5B in checks to proven climate startups last year.

The Plastic Challenge We’re Built For

Plastic has revolutionized packaging, agriculture, and consumer goods, but recovery rates reveal a stark reality: most plastic escapes current systems. Recycling is essential but insufficient on its own. That is where permanent pollution risk grows.

Smart Plastic was founded on a simple belief: plastic should not become permanent pollution. Our SPTek ECLIPSE™ additive is designed to work with conventional polyolefins (PE and PP), preserving performance and recyclability during use (timed and programmable) while supporting a better end-of-life outcome if recovery fails. Independent testing validates this approach across marine, terrestrial, and anaerobic landfill environments, with no microplastic residue.

How ECLIPSE™ Fits the Climate Tech Moment

Unlike solutions demanding infrastructure overhauls, ECLIPSE™ is a drop-in additive at 1% inclusion — no retooling, FDA-compliant (GRAS), and compatible with existing extrusion processes. It addresses the gap in polyolefin packaging like stretch film, bags, and agricultural mulch, where leakage is common.

This practical design makes it deployable now, aligning with Trellis’s focus on Seed-to-Series A companies with real traction. Our $1.1M+ in sales through Q1 2026 and partnerships like Sigma Plastics prove the model works.

Please Vote to Help Us Advance

Public support shapes the finalists announced in May, setting up webinar pitches and a shot at Trellis Impact 26. If you believe plastic should be engineered with its full lifecycle in mind — performance first, then a responsible end — we'd sincerely appreciate your vote for Smart Plastic!

Thank you for supporting climate tech that is science-led, operationally realistic, and ready to scale. Let’s build a smarter standard together.

Smart Plastic Technologies develops materials solutions designed to improve plastic end-of-life outcomes. Its platform, including SPTek ECLIPSE™, is built to work with conventional polyolefins while supporting a more responsible path when plastic is not recovered. Learn more at changetheplastic.com.
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We’ve Been Solving for Plastic End-of-Life in the Wrong Place

The global disconnect around plastic end-of-life isn’t a failure of awareness. It’s a failure of system design.

Over the past decade, the burden of solving the plastic problem has been placed on individuals: recycle more, choose better, avoid single-use wherever possible. Yet, plastic production continues to rise, and waste systems continue to fall short.

That disconnect isn’t a failure of awareness. It’s a failure of system design.

Much of our current approach depends on a simple assumption: if consumers do the “right” thing by recycling or composting materials, the system will work. But globally, only about 9% of plastic is actually recycled, highlighting the limits of downstream solutions alone.

Recycling systems are constrained by economics, contamination, and inconsistent infrastructure. Compostable materials depend on facilities that don’t exist in many regions. Even well-labeled packaging often ends up in the wrong wastestream.

We’ve designed solutions that depend on ideal conditions and placed them into systems that are anything but ideal.

The scale of the issue makes this even clearer. More than 350 million tons of plastic are produced annually, and two-thirds become waste within five years or less. This is not just a waste management problem, it’s a throughput problem.

We’ve optimized for speed, cost, and convenience, but not for recovery. Even when waste is collected, a significant portion is not recycled. In packaging — the largest source of plastic waste — much of what is collected still ends up in landfills or incineration due to technical and economic barriers.

Much of today’s response focuses on what happens after plastic becomes waste: recycling, recovery systems, and even offset mechanisms like plastic credits. These efforts are important, but they are inherently limited. They depend on infrastructure that is inconsistent and underdeveloped, economics that are often unfavorable, and human behavior that is difficult to standardize at scale.

As a result, even well-designed materials frequently fail to achieve their intended outcomes. By the time plastic reaches the waste stage, the conditions for success have already been constrained. Managing waste is necessary, but it cannot, on its own, solve a system that was not designed for recovery in the first place.

But a shift is coming. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), which requires producers to take accountability for packaging after use, is rapidly becoming central to global policy and circularity efforts. Already, dozens of jurisdictions worldwide are implementing or developing EPR frameworks, fundamentally shifting accountability upstream.

The question is no longer just: Is this recyclable?
It is now: What actually happens to this material in the real world — and who is responsible for that outcome?

End-of-life is no longer a secondary consideration. It is becoming a design constraint.

Plastic is often framed as the problem itself. And I wholeheartedly agree that reducing unnecessary plastic use is critical. But plastic didn’t become dominant by accident; it persists because it works within global supply chains, food systems, and cost structures.

It is lightweight, durable, cost-effective, and highly adaptable. It fits the system we’ve built. Even global institutions recognize this duality: plastic is deeply embedded in modern economies, even as its environmental impacts accelerate.

Which raises a more useful question:

If plastic is a problem, what does that say about the system that made it indispensable?

At the same time, emerging solutions like reuse, while promising, face their own constraints. Scaling reuse systems depends heavily on infrastructure development and cost competitiveness, which are still evolving.

We are still trying to solve the problem after the fact, rather than addressing how materials behave within real-world systems from the start.

If responsibility is shifting upstream, and systems remain imperfect, then the bar for solutions must change. It is no longer enough for materials to perform well in theory. They must perform in reality.

That means accounting for incomplete infrastructure, inconsistent behavior, leakage across waste streams, and economic constraints.

As regulatory pressure increases and margins tighten across the packaging industry, solutions that cannot meet cost, performance, and system constraints will struggle to scale.

If we continue to rely on downstream behavior to solve an upstream design problem, we will continue to fall short.

This is where the conversation is evolving — from intention to outcome, from design to accountability, from recyclability to real-world performance.

The real challenge is building systems, and solutions, that work as they are today, while moving us toward something better.

The goal isn’t just to eliminate plastic. It’s to build a world where we no longer depend on it in the ways we do today. That will require reducing unnecessary material use, accelerating viable alternatives, investing in infrastructure, and designing materials that align with real-world conditions.

Because until systems, incentives, policy, and design are aligned, we’re not solving the plastic problem. We’re just managing its symptoms.

Sources:

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/12/here-s-why-we-should-be-bullish-on-extended-producer-responsibility/

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/01/tipping-point-year-for-reusable-packaging-systems/

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2025/12/breaking-the-plastic-wave-2025

 

 

 

 

 

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Remembering Tim Murtaugh, Founder of Smart Plastic Technologies

Tim Murtaugh founded Smart Plastic Technologies on the belief that plastic did not have to become permanent pollution. He gave that belief a company, a science, and a team willing to fight for it.

Tim Murtaugh led with a servant’s heart. He was the first to celebrate others and the last to take credit. That is not a summary of his career. It is a description of how he showed up, every day, for the people around him.

Tim passed away suddenly on March 17, 2026.

There are founders who build companies, and there are founders who build cultures. Tim understood that the two are not separate projects. He knew that a mission as serious as changing how the world thinks about plastic would require more than good science. It would require people who trusted each other, who could disagree with respect and civility, and who came back the next morning ready to try again.

That is the company he built. And that is the company that will carry his work forward.

Tim was a serial entrepreneur. He grew up in upstate New York and spent a good part of his childhood in foster homes. He knew adversity, and it was likely in this crucible that his unquenchable fire for life and people was born. He knew he was meant to do important work, and he did, founding a beloved non-profit ministry for boys and a successful real estate development company, among others.

Tim was not interested in noise. He believed in precision: in claims that could be defended, in science that could be verified, in promises to customers and investors that could actually be kept. He pushed the team not to be louder, but to be more honest and more rigorous. In a market full of easy shortcuts and greenwashed language, that discipline was his signature.

He mentored the people around him without making it feel like mentorship. He asked questions when most leaders would have given answers. He listened when most people would have moved on. He was tough when he needed to be but always fair, with a ready smile and a bright outlook. He was a glass half full kind of guy.

The mission he founded Smart Plastic Technologies to pursue has not changed. If anything, it matters more now. We will honor him by seeing it through.

To Tim’s family:

We are grateful for every minute he gave to this team and to this work, and we are profoundly sorry for your loss. Tim’s name and his way of leading will remain a part of us and of this company for as long as it stands.

The Smart Plastic Technologies Team
March 2026

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What is SPTek ECLIPSE™?

For over 70 years, plastic hasn't evolved. Now, with SPTek ECLIPSE™, Smart Plastic Technologies has introduced a 1% drop-in additive for polyolefins that preserves performance and processing, stays compatible with recycling pre-activation, and adds an end-of-life safety net.

Click here to see our latest video describing how SPTek ECLIPSE™ is The Last Plastic.

https://youtu.be/yvTYkC4nL_8?si=c8GWqlhzGzuY2jXZ

This is a plastic bag. Simple. Useful. Disposable. And part of the 400 million tons of plastic produced every year.

Globally, less than 10% is recycled — polluting our land and water… our food supply… even our bodies. So, we created a failsafe for when plastic ends up in our environment.It’s called Smart Plastic – and it’s designed to disappear on purpose.Here’s how it works: Our SPTek ECLIPSE™ additive gives plastic a functional life span.

180 days… 24 months… 7 years… Manufacturers decide based on the product —  with no changes to machinery, no new equipment, no disruption.

When a product’s useful life is over — whether it ends up in sunlight, soil, landfill, or ocean, heat and humidity trigger the programmed transformation.

Long polymer chains fracture into shorter segments. But unlike other so-called “degradables” that leave behind microplastics, Smart Plastic keeps going… reducing segments to a size small enough for microbes to recognize as food… converting the plastic into water… CO₂… and biomass — the same material all living organisms are made from. No toxins. No microplastics. No greenwashing.

And this isn’t just theory. We’re proving it every day.

We’re adding ECLIPSE™ to industrial stretch film… medical device packaging and surgical gowns… agricultural mulch film… food packaging and straws… and the grocery bags holding your produce. And that’s just the beginning. Plastic hasn’t evolved in 70 years. Now is the time. Across industries and applications, Smart Plastic is reshaping what plastic can be.Proven chemistry. Predictable performance. A cleaner planet.

This is the new Smart Standard™. SPTek ECLIPSE™ by Smart Plastic. Plastic that Disappears on Purpose. changetheplastic.com

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Remembering Dave Hale

Dave Hale was one in a million, and he will be missed.

"Occasionally, as we tread through life, we are blessed with the opportunity to meet someone who is truly exceptional. I had the pleasure of the gift of Dave Hale’s friendship. Not just a man, Dave was a giant when it came to caring about others. From neighbors to co-workers and employees, Dave’s instinctive mission was to make things better for others. Humble philanthropist, creative thinker, hard worker, ethical friend. What more can I say? He will be greatly missed." — Tim Murtaugh, CEO, Smart Plastic

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Smart Plastic’s SPTek ECLIPSETM technology is a crucial safety net should plastic products evade the recycling system. Following a guaranteed functional life span, packaging has been shown to degrade up to 63% in 6 months under simulated landfill conditions.

By comparison, conventional plastics are not considered biodegradable. (As verified by ASTM D5526 test).

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What are nanoplastics? An engineer explains concerns about particles too small to see.

Nanoplastics – little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser – are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food, and human bodies. Now a new term is gaining attention: nanoplastics. These particles are even tinier than microplastics, and that's a huge problem.

It’s become common to read that microplastics – little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser – are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food and human bodies. Now a new term is gaining attention: nanoplastics. These particles are even tinier than microplastics – so small that they’re invisible to the naked eye.

Nanoplastics are a type of microplastic, distinguished by their extremely small size. Microplastics are usually less than 5 millimeters across; nanoplastics are between 1 and 1,000 nanometers across. For comparison, an average human hair is roughly 80,000-100,000 nanometers wide.

Nanoplastics are attracting growing concern thanks to recent technological advances that have made researchers more able to detect and analyze them. Their smaller size means that they are more easily transported over long distances and into more diverse environments than microplastics. They can more easily penetrate cells and tissues in living organisms, which could lead to different and more acute toxicological effects.

Studies in the past two years have found nanoplastics in human blood, in liver and lung cells, and in reproductive tissues such as the placenta and the testes. Around the world, nanoplastics have been found in the air, in seawater, in snow and in soil.

We already know that microplastics are present from the heights of Mount  Everest to deep ocean trenches. Now there is growing evidence that nanoplastics are more prevalent than larger microplastics in the environment.

Where they come from and where they go

Nanoplastics are created when everyday products such as clothes, food and beverage packaging, home furnishings, plastic bags, toys and toiletries degrade. This can be caused by environmental factors such as sunlight or wear and tear from mechanical action. Many personal care products, such as scrubs and shampoos, can also release nanoplastics.

Like larger plastic particles, nanoplastics can come from a variety of polymer types, including polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride. Because plastic products are widely used, it is hard to avoid nanoplastics in our daily lives.

When plastics reach the nanoscale, they present unique questions and challenges because of their tiny size and varying surface properties and composition. Since nanoplastics are small, they can easily penetrate cells and tissues that larger particles cannot. If they accumulate within living organisms, they could potentially cause adverse biological effects.

Graphic comparing size of nano- and microplastic fragments to a virus, smoke particle, grain of salt, human hair and pencil tip
Nanoplastics are several orders of magnitude smaller than microplastics. Center for International Environmental Law, CC BY-ND

The fate of nanoplastics in the environment is an ongoing research topic. Scientists don’t know yet whether nanoplastics further degrade in various environments into smaller particles, or into polymers, which are their basic building blocks – large molecules made of many small molecules strung together.

Detecting nanoplastics

Finding nanoplastics is challenging because they are so tiny and have diverse chemical compositions and structures. Researchers are refining different approaches for detecting nanoplastics, using techniques including Raman spectroscopy, chromatography and mass spectrometry. These methods can see the shapes and analyze the properties of nanoplastic particles.

In a 2024 study, researchers from Columbia University presented a new technology that was able to see and count nanoplastics in bottled water with high sensitivity and specificity. Unlike previous studies that could detect only a limited amount of nanoplastic particles, this study found that each liter of bottled water that was analyzed contained more than 100,000 plastic particles, most of which were nanoplastics.

A scientist looks at a computer screen that shows an enlarged red area.
Columbia University physical chemist Naixin Qian zooms in on an image generated from a microscope scan, with nanoplastics appearing as bright red spots. AP Photo/Mary Conlon

More studies need to be done before scientists can conclude whether all bottled water contains nanoplastics. But this new technique opens the door for further research.

Are nanoplastic particles toxic?

The toxicity of nanoplastics is another field of ongoing research. Some studies have suggested that these particles could pose significant risks to ecosystems and human health. One recent study suggested that they may be a risk factor for heart disease.

Another concern is that chemical pollutants, heavy metals and pathogens may stick to nanoplastics and become concentrated in the environment. This process could potentially expose living organisms to high concentrations of these harmful substances.

Nanoplastics clearly are a part of modern environments, but scientists need more research and information to understand what kinds of threats they could pose. As toxicologists often say, “The dose makes the poison.” In other words, actual exposure matters a lot. It is difficult to assess toxicity without knowing actual concentrations.

It is well known that larger plastic debris can fragment into nanoplastics, but there is much to learn about how these fragments degrade further. Researchers are working to detect and understand nanoplastics across many environments so that they can develop effective strategies to manage and mitigate these materials’ effects on people and the planet.

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here.

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[Buffalo Grove, Ill., Aug. 1] - Smart Plastic Technologies, a pioneering company in sustainable plastic solutions, is delighted to announce the appointment of Jerry Starr as the new chairman of its Board of Directors. Mr. Starr, the visionary CEO of Aargus Plastics, brings decades of expertise and a remarkable track record in the plastic industry to the Smart Plastic team. His outstanding leadership and commitment to innovation align seamlessly with Smart Plastic Technologies' mission to revolutionize the global fight against plastic waste.

 

Aargus Plastics, Inc., founded in 1959, stands as one of the nation's most versatile low- and high-density polyethylene extruders, printers, converters and recyclers. The company has continually adapted to meet the dynamic needs of its customers while maintaining a strong commitment to sustainability. Their range of recyclable products is custom-made to precise specifications and proudly manufactured in the United States.

 

Jerry Starr's journey with Aargus began in 1971 when he seized the opportunity to acquire a small plastic bag making company, Aargus Poly Bag in Chicago. Under his stewardship, Aargus Plastics witnessed substantial growth, evolving into a22-extrusion line and flexographic printing powerhouse. Starr's strong vision and unwavering commitment to excellence propelled the company to new heights of success. Alongside his wife, Sherry, and eldest son, Scott, Mr. Starr has steered the thriving family business for over three decades.

"We are thrilled to welcome Jerry Starr as the new Board of Directors chairman,"said Tim Murtaugh, founder and CEO of Smart Plastic Technologies. "His wealth of experience in the plastic industry, along with his passionate pursuit of sustainability, perfectly aligns with our values and vision. With Jerry's guidance and expertise, we are confident that Smart Plastic Technologies will continue to lead the way in transforming plastic waste management."

Earlier this year, Smart Plastic announced its status as a certified BCorp, acknowledging its dedication to combatting the global plastic waste crisis and utilizing its innovative bio-assimilation technologies as a force for good. Its cutting-edge SPTek ECLIPSE™ technology offers a bio-assimilable solution that allows plastic products—including stretch film, shopping bags,food service items and more—to degrade completely, leaving no harmful microplastics behind. This revolutionary technology has empowered the company to develop sustainable product offerings that significantly reduce the environmental impact of plastic materials.

 

SmartPlastic Technologies looks forward to collaborating with Jerry Starr to driveinnovation and sustainability in the plastic industry.

To learn more about Smart Plastic Technologies, please visit changetheplastic.com.

About Smart Plastic Technologies:

Smart Plastic Technologies is a sustainability disruptor in the waste management, environmental and human wellness sectors, redefining the potential of plastic. The company's goal is to transform plastic into a material that supports a circular economy and a regeneration model for the planet and its inhabitants. Smart Plastic Technologies' advanced technologies enhance the beneficial properties of plastic while significantly reducing its environmental impact. All products are 100% recyclable, FDA-approved and designed for the circular economy.

Press Contacts:

Chuck Morris
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
cjmorris@morriscreative.com

Tim Murtaugh
CEO and Founder
t.murtaugh@changetheplastic.com

Robin Misir
Senior Vice President
r.misir@changetheplastic.com


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[Buffalo Grove, Ill., June 29] — Smart Plastic Technologies, a global leader in sustainable plastic solutions, is proud to announce its official B Corp certification. This prestigious recognition acknowledges Smart Plastic's dedication to combatting the global plastic waste crisis and utilizing its innovative bio-assimilation technologies as a force for good.

Administered by B Lab, a nonprofit organization driving positive social and environmental change through business, the B Corp certification process rigorously evaluates a company's social and environmental impact. Smart Plastic Technologies underwent a comprehensive assessment of its operations and business model, ensuring alignment with B Lab's standards of transparency, accountability and sustainability.

As a B Corp-certified company, Smart Plastic Technologies joins a global community of like-minded businesses committed to making a positive impact on society and the planet.

We are thrilled to have earned the B Corp certification," said Tim Murtaugh, CEO and founder of Smart Plastic Technologies. "This achievement reflects our commitment to sustainable plastic solutions and reinforces our mission to drive meaningful change in the waste management, environmental and human wellness sectors. We are proud to join the B Corp community and collaborate with other purpose-driven organizations.

Smart Plastic Technologies develops innovative materials that minimize the environmental impact of plastics. The company's sustainable product offerings aim to reduce waste, promote recyclability and mitigate the negative effects of plastic pollution. Through its performance additives, Smart Plastic Technologies protects the health and well-being of both people and the planet while profoundly enhancing the behavior and beneficial properties of plastic.

Smart Plastic’s bio-assimilation technology allows plastic to degrade to a molecular weight that can be consumed by living organisms. This represents the final and conclusive stage of plastic biodegradation, leaving behind no microplastics.

The company’s collaborations with Munchkin, a renowned provider of baby and toddler products, PFN, a leading manufacturer of human wellness nonwovens, and Sigma Stretch Film, an industry leader in stretch film, enable Smart Plastic Technologies to expand its reach and bring sustainable solutions to diverse sectors, creating a positive ripple effect across industries.

The B Corp certification underscores Smart Plastic Technologies' ongoing commitment to operating as a responsible and sustainable business, delivering solutions that support a circular economy and a regeneration model for the future.

To learn more about Smart Plastic Technologies, please visit changetheplastic.com.

About Smart Plastic Technologies:

Smart Plastic Technologies is a sustainability disruptor in the waste management, environmental and human wellness sectors, redefining the potential of plastic. The company's goal is to transform plastic into a material that supports a circular economy and a regeneration model for the planet and its inhabitants. Smart Plastic Technologies' advanced technologies enhance the beneficial properties of plastic while significantly reducing its environmental impact. All products are 100% recyclable, FDA-approved and designed for the circular economy.

Press Contacts:

Chuck Morris
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
cjmorris@morriscreative.com

Tim Murtaugh
CEO and Founder
t.murtaugh@changetheplastic.com

Robin Misir
Senior Vice President
r.misir@changetheplastic.com


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