The Center for Plastic, Paper, and Hybrid-Packaging End-of-Life Solutions (C3PS) will address serious environmental concerns related to the fate of packaging materials like plastics and plastic-paper hybrids at their end-of-life (EoL). Packaging is necessary for protecting a product’s integrity, safety, and quality during transportation, storage, and use. It also produces about 57 million tons per year of plastics, paper, and plastic-paper hybrids in the US alone creating an global, urgent need for a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastic, including its production, design, and end-of-life disposal. Such considerations are the essential elements of C3PS. C3PS will re-designing packaging materials for improved recovery and recy-clability, biodegradability and compostability and waste reduction throughout their lifecycle. The center will also ensure that new and re-designed plastic, paper and hybrid-packaging mate-rials can be integrated with EoL disposal systems. These efforts will help to establish the Unit-ed States as a global leader in sustainable packaging through zero-waste, circular, and low-carbon systems. The Center will generate fundamental knowledge by generating new data, pro-cesses, and materials to promote upstream and downstream innovations for a zero-waste pack-aging ecosystem through strong collaboration between academic researchers and industry part-ners. C3PS is dedicated to developing a diverse skilled workforce through ed