Australia’s National Waste Targets · Working with its partners along the plastic value chain,...
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Australia’s National Waste Targets - Agreed by Australia’s Environment Ministers Nov 2019
1. Ban the export of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres, commencing in the second half of 2020
2. Reduce the total waste generated in Australia by 10% per person by 2030
3. 80% average resource recovery rate from all waste streams following the waste hierarchy by 2030
4. Significantly increase the use of recycled content by governments and industry
5. Phase out problematic and unnecessary plastics by 2025
6. Halve the amount of organic waste sent to landfill by 2030
7. Make comprehensive, economy-wide and timely data publicly available to support better consumer, investment and policy decisions
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Australia’s 2025 National Packaging Targets
• 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging
• 70% of plastic packaging being recycled or composted
• 30% of average recycled content included in packaging
• The phase out of problematic and unnecessary single-use plastics packaging.
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In the 3 weeks preceding the Summit, over 1600 Australians responded to an online survey on their concerns about plastic waste.
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Pact will partner with industry to invest $500 million in existing and new
facilities for sustainable packaging, reuse and recycling initiatives in the next
five years.
Pact will have 30% recycled content across its product portfolio by 2025,
diverting nearly two billion plastic containers from landfill.
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In 2019, QANTAS pledged to remove 100 million single-use plastics items by end of 2020 thereby reducing our waste to landfill by 75% by the end of 2021.
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Amcor will develop all of its packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025
Significantly increase our use of recycled materials in our packaging
Develop all our packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025
Work with others to drive consistently greater worldwide recycling of packaging
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Replas will increase by 20%, the 3000 tonnes of plastic it already diverts from landfill
by the end of 2020.
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Cleanaway, Pact and Asahi will build a plastic pelletising facility to close the loop and contribute to a circular economy.
The 28,000 tonne (900 million bottles) facility, to be located in Albury/Wodonga, is expected to be operational by December 2021.
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Nestlé and iQ Renew will commence a trial which will see soft plastics collected from over 100,000 homes through kerbside recycling. This will divert
approximately 750 tonnes of soft plastic from landfill.
Nestlé commit that 100% of our packaging is reusable or recyclable by 2025.
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Nestle have committed to:
• procuring AUD$2.3billion worth of recycled food grade plastic by 2025 globally
• Reducing its use of virgin plastic by one-third by 2025
• eliminating problematic plastics (PVC, dark pigments, polystyrene)
• all local Nestlé packaging carrying the Australasian Recycling Label (ARL) by the end of 2020.
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PepsiCo has pledged $650,000 to support Greening the Green, a partnership with Clean Up Australia, REDcycle and Replas.
The three-year national program aims to educate consumers on soft plastic recovery and soft plastic recycling.
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Unpackaged Eco pledges to accelerate our mission to help free every Australian
household and workplace from single-use plastic waste by 2025, by offering
everyday products made from 100% sustainable resources, delivered either
unpackaged, or in packaging that is 100% returnable, refillable or compostable.
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LyondellBasell pledges to evaluate and develop post-consumer polypropylene
recycling solutions, in partnership with industry, with the aim of creating value
added recycled polypropylene to supply the Australian market.
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Working with its partners along the plastic value chain, Licella commits to
helping establish a chemical recycling industry in Australia with its Cat-HTR™
technology for those 85+% of plastics that are currently non-recyclable. Turning
waste into a resource and diverting it from landfill.
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iQ Renew commits to being the first company in Australia to combine physical
and chemical recycling of plastic, enabling the recycling of virtually all plastic.
By commercialising the Cat-HTR™ chemical recycling solution for waste
plastics in Australia, iQ Renew will extract more value from the community’s
recovered resources and divert more plastic from landfill.
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McDonalds pledges to phase out plastic cutlery and move to a fibre-based alternative
by the end of 2020 - removing 585 tonnes of plastic from circulation each year.
This is in addition to McDonalds existing pledge to eliminate plastics straws by the
end of 2020 – removing 500 million straws per year from circulation.
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APCO will lead the development of the ANZPAC Plastic Pact, a new program within the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Global Plastics Pact Network.
ANZPAC will provide the significant intervention required to meet Australia’s national plastic packaging target - that 70% of all plastic packaging will be recycled or composted by 2025.
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Chemistry Australia has established the Plastics Stewardship Australia initiative to support the
sustainable use and recovery of plastics. This includes:
• helping designers and manufacturers use plastics to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals
• strengthening the uptake of Operation Clean Sweep to keep plastic pellets out of our oceans and
waterways
• supporting increased recovery of plastic products at end of life
• providing knowledge and information on the new Plastics Stewardship Australia website:
www.plasticsstewardshipaustralia.org.au.
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Coca-Cola Amatil pledged in 2019 that:
• soft drink and water brands, 1 litre and below, are being produced from 100%
recycled plastic
• opportunities for a recycling plant in Australia are being explored under a Heads of
Agreement with Veolia
• they are making progress in removing non-recyclable packaging from the business, in
line with 2025 national packaging targets.
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Kmart Group determined in 2019 that they will:
• complete the phase-out of 10 priority own brand single-use plastic products by July 2021
• achieve the government’s 2025 sustainable packaging goals by December 2023
• ensure that 50% of the polyester and nylon used in Kmart branded clothing and bedding ranges
will be from recycled material by January 2025
• complete the phase out of all problematic plastics in Kmart and Target brand products by
December 2025
• 100% of Kmart and Target plastic products will be recyclable or compostable by December 2030.
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Unilever has confirmed that by 2025 it will:
• halve its use of virgin plastic, by reducing its absolute use of plastic
packaging by more than 100,000 tonnes and accelerating its use of
recycled plastic
• help collect and process more plastic packaging than it sells.
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Coles will award $430,000 to REDcycle to extend their recycling work in Coles
stores.
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Australia Post is on track to deliver to their 2020 target which is to enable
the reuse and recycling of 100,000 tonnes of material by June 2020.
Australia Post also pledge to move to 100% recycled plastic postage bags by
December 2021.
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Plastic Forests pledges to develop new recycled products using difficult to recycle soft
plastics, such as consumer plastics collected by REDcycle, coffee cups from Simply
Cups and agricultural films.
A new Air Con Mounting Block, released today, is made from 100% recycled plastic.
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The Australian Dairy Industry has committed to 100% of Australian
dairy packaging to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025
or earlier.
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Under a program called Buy Recycled, Clean Up Australia will actively leverage
current alliances and partnerships with businesses, councils, associations,
schools and sporting groups to promote resource recovery.
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Woolworths pledge to remove or reduce plastic packaging across our own brand product ranges, and provide further opportunities for our
customers to contribute to the circular economy through recycling and reusable options.
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REDcycle pledge to help build more robust Australian end markets for
problematic material streams.
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The AIP is the peak professional body for packaging training and education in
Australasia. We are actively working with APCO to train packaging designers and
technologists to ensure that they understand the 2025 National Packaging Targets, the
Sustainable Packaging Guidelines, the Australasian Recycling Label and PREP tools and
LCA for Sustainable Design. This is an on-going commitment to ensure that we are re-
designing better.
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Closed Loop pledges to purchase and market at least 500 tonnes of upcycled
products made from recycled plastic products and packaging that otherwise
would have been sent to landfill.
The pledge relates to soft/flexible plastics and plastic-coated board including
contaminated plastics.
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Dow pledge that by 2030 the products we sell into packaging
applications will be 100% reusable, recyclable, compostable or
biodegradable.
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AIMS has a 2025 target of 25% reduction in carbon emissions, 25%
reduction in solid waste to landfill and 10% reduction in fresh water
use.
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To phase out all single use plastics from CSIRO catering operations