The ANZPAC Plastics Pact (ANZPAC) has launched in the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands region today, uniting businesses, NGOs and governments behind a series of ambitious 2025 targets to eliminate plastic waste.
Joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact Network, the ANZPAC Plastics Pact is said to represent the complete plastics supply chain, from leading brands, packaging manufacturers and retailers to resource recovery leaders, government institutions, and NGOs. Among the Pact’s members are Coles Group, Woolworths Group, ALDI Australia, Coca-Cola South Pacific, Mondelēz Australia, Nestlé Australia and Unilever (full list below).
The ambitious new cross-regional program is expected to “fundamentally transform” our response to plastic. This will be achieved by eliminating the plastics we don’t need, innovating to ensure that the plastics we do need are reusable, recyclable, or compostable, and circulating the plastic we use, keeping it in the economy and out of the environment.
Targets
ANZPAC members will work towards four “clear, actionable” targets by 2025:
- Eliminate unnecessary and problematic plastic packaging through redesign, innovation and alternative (reuse) delivery models.
- 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by 2025.
- Increase plastic packaging collected and effectively recycled by 25% for each geography within the ANZPAC region.
- Average of 25% recycled content in plastic packaging across the region.
The immediate next steps for members, says the program, will be to develop a roadmap for action.
Brooke Donnelly, the CEO of Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (ANZPAC lead organisation) comments: “On behalf of the ANZPAC team, and our passionate community of founding members, it is my pleasure to officially launch the ANZPAC Plastics Pact for the Oceania region.
“As well as a growing problem, plastic is also fundamentally an international one. To tackle plastic waste effectively we need to find solutions that aren’t constrained by national borders or old ways of thinking. Through the Plastics Pact model, we will bring together the complete plastic supply chain across the entire Oceania region, and working with our global partners through the Plastics Pact network, develop solutions that deliver real and tangible change to the plastic problem for our region.
“Congratulations to all of our founding members on their genuine commitment to achieving a circular economy for plastics and their willingness to break down traditional barriers and accelerate truly innovative solutions.”
Founding members and supporters
- ALDI Australia
- Amcor Flexibles
- The Arnott’s Group
- Asahi Beverages
- Australian Beverages Council
- Australian Bioplastics Association
- Australian Food and Grocery Council
- Australian Institute of Packaging
- Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia
- Clean Up Australia
- Coca-Cola South Pacific
- Coles Group
- Colgate Palmolive
- Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation
- Disruptive Packaging
- Earthwise Group
- ecostore
- EGO Pharmaceuticals
- Good Environmental Choice Australia
- Keep New Zealand Beautiful
- KeepCup
- Klöckner Pentaplast Group
- Mad World
- Marine Plastic Solutions
- Mettler Packaging
- Mondelēz Australia
- Nestlé Australia
- O F Packaging
- Ocean Impact Organisation
- PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand
- Piber Plastics Australia
- Planet Ark Environmental Foundation
- Planet Protector Packaging
- Plastic Energy
- Pledge for the Planet
- RecycleCorp Vanuatu PLC
- Samoa Recycling Waste Management Association
- Samoa Tourism Authority
- Sancell
- Scholle IPN
- Seaside Scavenge
- Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
- Solomon Islands Recycling Waste Management Association
- Stongim Bisnis
- Tacca Industries Pty
- TerraCycle Australia and New Zealand
- The Better Packaging Co.
- Polystyrene Solutions
- TIPA-Corp
- PAKTOEARTH
- Unilever Australia
- Vanden Recycling
- Vanuatu Beverage
- Vanuatu Brewing
- Vanuatu Environmental Science Society
- Vanuatu Recyclers and Waste Management Association
- Vava’u Environmental Protection Association
- Veolia Environmental Services
- Woolworths Group
- World Wide Fund for Nature
