Retail Council of Canada (RCC) (CNW Group/Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada)
Canadian Beverage Association (CBA) (CNW Group/Food, Health & Consumer Products of Canada)
TORONTO, Dec. 9, 2020 /CNW/ - More than twenty Canadian retail and consumer packaged goods companies, representing a substantial proportion of the nation s plastic packaging, are among the first to support new global Golden Design Rules to improve plastics recycling and reduce landfill and pollution.
The rules acknowledge the importance of plastic packaging for food quality and safety, while encouraging companies industrywide to make packaging decisions that better support recycling systems. In addition to keeping plastic out of landfill and nature, designing packaging to be more recyclable is an important first step in converting a take-make-waste linear economy into a circular economy where the ingredients of plastic packaging are captured and reused.