06.16.21
Amcor announced its support for the launch of the US Plastics Pact’s Roadmap to 2025, an aggressive national strategy for how the US Pact, Amcor and other signatory organizations – known as Activators – will achieve four 2025 targets. The plan delineates specific actions, responsibilities and timeframes necessary to realize a circular economy for plastics in the US.
Launched in August 2020, the US Plastics Pact is a consortium led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global network. The network creates a holistic ecosystem of industry stakeholders with a common strategy: to address plastic waste at its source.
“Amcor is committed to creating responsible packaging that is recycled and reused,” said Amcor VP of sustainability David Clark. “Our innovation is designing more and more of our packaging to be recycled and using more recycled content, but we need progress on infrastructure and consumer participation too.”
As a US Pact Activator, Amcor joins others in the plastics value chain to drive progress through systemic change toward the 2025 targets:
• Define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2021 and take measures to eliminate them by 2025.
• 100% of plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
• By 2025, undertake ambitious actions to effectively recycle or compost 50% of plastic packaging.
• By 2025, the average recycled content or responsibly sourced bio-based content in plastic packaging will be 30%.
Launched in August 2020, the US Plastics Pact is a consortium led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global network. The network creates a holistic ecosystem of industry stakeholders with a common strategy: to address plastic waste at its source.
“Amcor is committed to creating responsible packaging that is recycled and reused,” said Amcor VP of sustainability David Clark. “Our innovation is designing more and more of our packaging to be recycled and using more recycled content, but we need progress on infrastructure and consumer participation too.”
As a US Pact Activator, Amcor joins others in the plastics value chain to drive progress through systemic change toward the 2025 targets:
• Define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2021 and take measures to eliminate them by 2025.
• 100% of plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
• By 2025, undertake ambitious actions to effectively recycle or compost 50% of plastic packaging.
• By 2025, the average recycled content or responsibly sourced bio-based content in plastic packaging will be 30%.
