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We can’t operate alone anymore. You need partnerships and need to find willing partners who are moving in the same direction as you.” — Tom Lunn, Detmold Group
plastics we use in Australia now, which is similar to other economies.” And finally, Smith spoke about the
importance of targets in encouraging investment in the circular economy. “There is a strong future for us with the technology available; it’s just a matter of a concerted effort across the supply chain, and that’s where the [2025 National Packaging] targets
will come into play,” he said. Detmold Group general manager Tom Lunn turned the focus to fibre-based packaging in the circular economy. He said a major issue is that Australia is a small market and it is difficult to find
the scale necessary for changes.
“You really need to be clever and find some end markets [for recycled
materials],” he said.
“Those end markets drive through
to packaging design, and the designers
low cost, and it has a low carbon foot- print. Its success has created a challenge in that, at the end of its life, there is little mass, and [therefore] it has low value.”
Smith said the solution to the cir- cularity problem has several dimen- sions, including the packaging itself, the waste-collection infrastructure, consumer behaviour, and the recy- cling infrastructure itself.
He mentioned Amcor’s involve- ment in the Holy Grail project in
Europe, which aims to ensure a purer recycling stream using digital water- marks on packaging.
Smith also said, for soft plastics, mechanical recycling is not going to be able to close the loop on its own, the industry must turn to chemical recycling.
“This is the way where we can close the loop on soft plastics,” he said.
“We need to consider that soft plas- tics are a very large portion of the
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