Leading Canada’s response to the escalating plastic crisis.
There is tremendous motivation, commitment, and momentum across the entire plastics value chain to solve this crisis.
Cher Mereweather
Managing Director, CPP
CPP exists to eliminate plastic waste by accelerating and scaling solutions that will keep the right plastics in our economy and all plastics out of people, animals, and nature.
Plastic waste has become one of the greatest environmental crises of our time. Globally, we’re on course to see an additional 80 million metric tons of plastic going into our oceans by 2040. Action is urgent. The question is how.
Plastics are ubiquitous, complex, and completely embedded in our supply chains. A world without them isn’t the answer. Many plastics offer important benefits that people need- keeping our food fresh, delivering medicine safely. The key is to stop these plastics from becoming waste and pollution.
But our plastic crisis isn’t just about what gets thrown away; it’s also about what gets created and how.
No single organization or sector can rise to these challenges alone. The good news is, CPP has convened 100+ partners representing key players in the plastics ecosystem, including raw material producers, manufacturers, brands and retailers, recyclers, associations, environmental organizations, government bodies, and academic institutions. We cultivate and harness the collective motivation, commitment, and momentum across the plastics value chain to drive change. Together we’re eliminating plastics we don’t need from our supply chains, redesigning plastics packaging, and increasing the use of recycled plastics.
A future without plastic waste and pollution is possible. At CPP, we’re making real progress to get there—as a whole system.
Contact Meg O’Shea, Director of Strategic Partnerships, to learn more: info@plasticspact.ca
Visit CPP’s WebsiteThere is tremendous motivation, commitment, and momentum across the entire plastics value chain to solve this crisis.
Cher Mereweather
Managing Director, CPP
I’m here because the work we do everyday, has real tangible impact.
Cher is one of Canada’s leaders in food system sustainability. She has dedicated her 20+ year career to enabling companies with embracing sustainability, purpose and circularity in order to create a more resilient food system. Her work has focused on many facets of circularity including circular plastics, food waste prevention, upcycling, regenerative culture and behaviour change.
Before founding Provision Coalition Inc., recently acquired by Anthesis Group, Cher’s career included time with the Guelph Food Technology Centre (now NSF International) where she established and directed the Sustainability Consulting Business Unit, and held several executive positions in environmental economics and policy with the George Morris Centre, a Canadian agri-food think tank. Cher holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Economics and Policy and is certified in both project and change management. Cher has also been the recipient of the Canadian Grocer Generation Next award for her leadership, innovation and excellence in sustainability within the food and beverage industry. Learn more at LinkedIn.
I love that we are enabling competitive businesses to work together on their shared challenges. Maybe we go faster alone, but we go further together!
Meg earned her PhD at University of British Columbia studying the tension we experience between dogmatic instruction for climate conscious choices and our embodied, lived experience in everyday life. Outside of academia, Meg continues to practice and facilitate collaborative approaches to motivate collective action in many fields including the Arts, social-serving non profits, industrial lands, cooperative housing, and economic development.
Meg has over a decade of experience supporting transformation in business for greater economic, environmental, and social sustainability. She is a skilled facilitator, systems thinker, change manager, and team leader. Meg is also an amateur textile artist, an adventurous vegetarian cook, and a lover of spontaneous dance parties.
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