Showcasing sustainability progress at Amcor: Collaboration for waste management with David Clark
Sustainability
October 13, 2021Reading time: 1 minutes
In this blog series, I am reflecting on the progress we’ve made when it comes to our sustainability goals in the last year. My previous post reviewed the advances we’ve made when it comes to creating more sustainable packaging. Now, I’d like to highlight how we are working with others to collaborate on better waste management:
In this blog series, I am reflecting on the progress we’ve made when it comes to our sustainability goals in the last year. My previous post reviewed the advances we’ve made when it comes to creating more sustainable packaging. Now, I’d like to highlight how we are working with others to collaborate on better waste management:
To make progress on better waste management infrastructure requires close collaboration with others across the value chain to sort, collect and recycle packaging. It also requires forward-thinking policies that lead to steady investment in recycling infrastructure. In the last year, we have stepped up both our collaboration with others through our partnership network and our work with legislators:
• We have leadership positions within the US and ANZPAC plastic pacts, as well as supporting the 4evergreen alliance in Europe, all of which are aimed at increasing the circular economy for packaging.
• We have continued our long-standing partnerships with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Recycling Partnership contributing our expertise and global perspective to create a circular economy for packaging.
• This year we joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, which works on-the-ground with communities and municipalities to improve waste collection and recycling.
• We have also supported McKinsey.org’s “Rethinking Recycling” initiative, which has implemented a successful waste sorting and collecting mechanism in Buenos Aires.
To find out how we’re innovating packaging design click here. Come back next week to read about the work we’re doing to educate and inform others about how we can work together to achieve progress.
