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Companies join pact to eliminate plastic waste in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands by 2025
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As part of its ambition to be Australia’s most sustainable supermarket, Coles has today reaffirmed its commitment to packaging sustainability by joining the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands Plastics Pact (ANZPAC) as a founding member.
Led by The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), the new Pact commits Coles to four clear, actionable targets by 2025, including: eliminating unnecessary and problematic plastic packaging; ensuring 100 per cent of plastic packaging is recyclable, reusable or compostable; increasing the current volume of plastic packaging collected and effectively recycled by at least 25%; and ensuring an average of 25% recycled content is in plastic packaging across the region.[1]
In a submission to a review of the laws, which closed on Friday, WWF-Australia said the states’ and territories’ failure to enforce the law had resulted in “a system characterised by free-riders, where brands can choose to voluntarily meet APCO targets or be governed by regulations that aren’t enforced”.
The organisation’s plastics campaigner, Katinka Day, said there needed to be penalties for companies that were not part of APCO.
“We cannot feel confident that Australia’s packaging targets will be met unless they are made mandatory to all companies putting packaging on the market,” she said.
A submission by the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR), representing 2,000 members including some state and local governments, said the review came at a “pivotal point” in Australia’s journey towards a circular economy.
Australia to miss plastic reduction targets without tougher enforcement, waste industry says Graham Readfearn © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
Australia is likely to miss all of its own targets to rid the environment of plastic unless there is a major overhaul of its management and enforcement, conservationists and waste industry representatives say.
A government review found no state or territory had investigated or penalised a company over their performance on packaging waste in the past four years.
WWF-Australia said it showed the federal government’s chosen approach of voluntary schemes and state-based measures was failing.
And the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia, a leading industry body, has written to the federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, warning the government is likely to miss its packaging targets unless there are significant reforms.
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