Organizations announce plastic recycling initiative
Organizations announce plastic recycling initiative
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Several nongovernmental organizations are spearheading an initiative called the United States Plastics Pact, which aims to make all plastic packaging 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
The creation of the U.S. Plastics Pact has been jointly announced by The Recycling Partnership, based in Falls Church, Virginia; the United Kingdom-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation; and the Switzerland-based World Wildlife Fund. The pact was announced at an online event hosted by Oakland, California-based Greenbiz Circularity.
The groups call the pact “an ambitious initiative to unify more than 70 diverse public-private stakeholders – ‘Activators of The Pact’ – across each part of the supply and plastics manufacturing chain to rethink the way we design, use and reuse plastics in order to create a path toward a circular economy for plastic in the U.S.”
The pact has identified four targeted results:
- to define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2021, and to “take measures to eliminate them by 2025;”
- to ensure that by 2025, all plastic packaging is 100 percent reusable, recyclable, or compostable;
- to undertake what the pact calls “ambitious actions to effectively recycle or compost 50 percent of plastic packaging” by 2025; and
- to reach an average recycled content or “responsibly sourced bio-based content” in plastic packaging of 30 percent by 2025.
The organizers of the U.S. Plastics Pact say it was created in part because “individualized action has proven insufficient thus far in achieving significant, systemwide change. Reaching this specific vision will require new levels of innovation and collaboration from all ‘activators’ of the U.S. Plastics Pact and beyond.”
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Source: Recycling Today
Organizations announce plastic recycling initiative
<![CDATA[Several nongovernmental organizations are spearheading an initiative called the United States Plastics Pact, which aims to make all plastic packaging 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.The creation of the U.S. Plastics Pact has been jointly announced by The Recycling Partnership, based in Falls Church, Virginia; the United Kingdom-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation; and the Switzerland-based World Wildlife Fund. The pact was announced at an online event hosted by Oakland, California-based Greenbiz Circularity.The groups call the pact “an ambitious initiative to unify more than 70 diverse public-private stakeholders – ‘Activators of The Pact’ – across each part of the supply and plastics manufacturing chain to rethink the way we design, use and reuse plastics in order to create a path toward a circular economy for plastic in the U.S.”The pact has identified four targeted results:to define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2021, and to “take measures to eliminate them by 2025;” to ensure that by 2025, all plastic packaging is 100 percent reusable, recyclable, or compostable;to undertake what the pact calls “ambitious actions to effectively recycle or compost 50 percent of plastic packaging” by 2025; and to reach an average recycled content or…