UK businesses make pact to tackle plastic packaging pollution

Unnecessary single-use plastic packaging will be a thing of the past as businesses sign up to a pact, which aims to transform the plastic packaging system in the UK and keep plastic in the economy and out of the ocean. The pact members are responsible for over 80% of the plastic packaging on products sold through UK supermarkets.
They have committed to hit a series of targets by 2025: 1) Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use plastic packaging, 2) 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable, 3) 70% of plastic packaging effectively recycled or composted and 4) 30% average recycled content across all plastic packaging (Press Release WRAP, 26 April 2018).
Click here for the press release.
Click here for more information about the pact.
Click here for more information about the Live Online NVC E-Workshop Sustainable Innovation in Packaging.
With NVC MERGE (Members-only Environmental Regulations Guide) you can keep up-to-date with the environmental requirements for your packaging. MERGE is exclusively for NVC members and there are no costs involved.
Click here for more information about the NVC Project PUMA: the end of packaging as an environmental issue. You are welcome to join us for the next project meeting on 27 March 2019.

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