More than 40 major businesses have pledged to eradicate single-use plastics from packaging in an effort to tackle the global pollution crisis.
The launch of the UK Plastics Pact comes amid concerns over the impact such waste is having on the environment as it pervades the world’s land, oceans and waterways.
With members across major food and non-food brands – including Sainsbury’s, Nestlé and Coca-Cola – the pact’s participants are collectively responsible for more than 80 per cent of the UK’s supermarket plastic packaging.
As the first initiative of its kind in the world, it is hoped the pact will serve as a template for other countries and spark a “global movement for change”.
The pact, which was welcomed by government ministers and environmental campaigners, consists of a series of targets that the industry as a whole will aim to meet by 2025.
These include the complete elimination of “problematic or unnecessary” single-use plastic packaging by developing new designs and alternative delivery methods.
Other targets include all plastic packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable, and ensuring that at least 70 […]
I guess we’re still too stupid to make plastic out of hemp, which WILL decompose and cause no damage to the environment. You want to know what I think? I think we likely have raw materials to make plastic bags for decades already. We just CAN’T stop making something because some folks have a backlog of materials to use up. God forbid we should just melt the stuff, or dump it into some of the newly emerged sink holes.