Packaging giant Mondi targets 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable products by 2025
As part of a new sustainability strategy which it claims is aligned with the UN s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of the world s biggest packaging and paper companies has pledged to phase-out products that can t be recycled, reused or composted.
Pictured: Paper production equipment at a facility in Sweden. Image: Mondi Group
Mondi’s new ten-year action plan, called MAP2030, will require sweeping changes across the company’s global value chain. Its focus points are the circular economy, climate action and empowering people.
The new commitment on recyclability, reusability and compostability falls into the first category and has a 2025 deadline. Many other businesses are already working towards this aim in this timespan through initiatives like WRAP’s UK Plastics Pact. Mondi’s group head of sustainable development Gladys Naylor recently wrote a blog for edie outlining the oppor