About
Imagine you pick up your morning coffee, but instead of a disposable cup, it comes in a reusable one. You drink it and then drop the cup into a designated collection point and go about your day. Behind the scenes, your cup, and other reusable containers, are collected and transported to a washing facility where they are washed, sanitized, packed, and distributed for use again at another cafe or coffee shop. Reusable packaging systems like this are on the rise in the U.S., especially in city centers, theaters, stadiums, corporate campuses, and schools. Increasingly, facilities that wash reusable packaging are part of the food supply chain landscape, but until now there was limited guidance on how to account for them in food safety programs, inspection processes, or food codes.
PR3’s washing standard, designated as an American National Standard, is the first specifically created for reusable packaging operations to help ensure their safety, consistency, interoperability, and effectiveness. It offers food service inspectors a comprehensive checklist of what to look for when inspecting washing facilities for reusable packaging.
Cost
FREE
Dates
September 12, 2025
Register Here: https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_GoSsv-mvSteUbF0KzoXW0Q#/registration
Speakers
Claudette Juska, Co-Founder and Technical Director, PR3 — Juska is co-founder and Technical Director of PR3, where she leads the development of standards for reuse systems. She is a trained engineer and researcher with 20 years’ experience in the environmental movement. She is an expert in supply chain research, having studied and intervened in the supply chains of the seafood, forest product, automobile, fossil fuel, and plastics industries. Juska has deep knowledge of the complexities involved in sourcing, manufacturing, and delivering consumer goods, and she works to create and promote solutions to environmental and social concerns along the supply route.
Mason Hines, Senior Program Manager, PR3 — Hines is a Senior Program Manager and Consensus Builder at RESOLVE and PR3. On behalf of PR3, Hines led RESOLVE’s accreditation as an ANSI-Accredited Standards Developer in 2023 and now coordinates the development of seven foundational standards meant to enable interoperability among reuse systems, maximize efficiencies, and avoid the fragmentation that hampers current waste systems. With a background in conflict resolution and collaborative process design, Hines works to build solutions that improve the wellness of people and the planet.
