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March-April 2020 | www.packagingnews.com.au | SUSTAINABILITY 17
WHAT IS THE ANZPAC PACT AND WHAT WILL IT DO?
ANZPAC Plastics Pact is the latest addition to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network. It will work with businesses, governments, and nongovernmental organisations from across the plastics value chain in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island nations to develop a common vision of the circular economy for plastics.
APCO said ANZPAC Plastics Pact will provide the intervention required to meet Australia’s national plastic packaging target of 70 per cent of plastic packaging to be recycled or composted by 2025.
Aligned with the other initiatives of the Plastics Pact network, the ANZPAC Plastics Pact will work towards a set of ambitious, time-bound targets in the following areas:
• Eliminating unnecessary and problematic single-use plastic
packaging through redesign and innovation;
• Ensuring all plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or
compostable;
• Increasing recycled content in plastic packaging; and
• Increasing the reuse, collection, and recycling of plastic packaging.
The exact targets will be released towards the end of 2020, and progress will be reported annually.