Amcor becomes founding signatory of ANZPAC Plastics Pact

ANZPAC works with businesses, governments and NGOs from across the plastics value chain in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Island nations, with a series of ambitious 2025 targets to develop a common vision of the circular economy for plastics.

In addition, the ANZPAC has joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's global Plastics Pact network as the first Plastics Pact in the Oceania region to join.
Attending the official launch of ANZPAC Plastic Pact in Sydney, Simon Roy, Vice President & General Manager Amcor Flexibles Australia & New Zealand commented, “The ANZPAC Plastics Pact is a collaborative solution that brings together key players in the region behind a shared vision of a circular economy for plastic, where plastic never becomes waste or pollution.

“As the global leader for consumer packaging, Amcor is proud to be a founding signatory of this collaboration. Amcor is committed to ensuring all our packaging is designed to be recyclable or reusable by 2025. With just 16% of plastic packaging currently being recycled in Australia, ANZPAC will provide the significant intervention required to meet Australia’s national plastic packaging target that 70% of all plastic packaging will 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:

• Eliminate unnecessary and problematic single-use plastic packaging through redesign and innovation
• Ensure all plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable
• Increase the reuse, collection, and recycling of plastic packaging
• Increase recycled content in plastic packaging

For more information please visit www.anzpacplasticspact.org.au