Leading supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles are committing to ambitious goals to fight plastic waste through a vision of ensuring all plastic packaging are recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. The two supermarket groups have joined 60 groups—including ALDI and Nestle—across the supply chain that have signed up to the ‘Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands Plastics Pact’ (ANZPAC). ANZPAC, which launches on Tuesday, is also set to target unnecessary and problematic plastic packaging, increase package collection and recycling by 25 percent, and reach 25 percent recycled packaging across the region in the next four years. “As well as a growing problem, plastic is also fundamentally an international one,” Brooke Donnelly, CEO of Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation, the lead organisation of ANZPAC, said. “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 …
Woolworths, Coles Pledge to Radically Reduce Plastic Waste in Ambitious Pact
May 17, 2021
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