Amcor Joins U.S. Plastics Pact to Advance Circular Economy Goals in the United States

Published: August 31, 2020

Amcor announced it has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative to create a path forward to a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025.

The U.S. Plastics Pact is focused on four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches, setting a national strategy, and creating scalable solutions.

“As a global leader in the packaging industry, Amcor’s colleagues continuously push themselves and others to achieve more, to understand challenges and advance transformational change,” said Eric Roegner, president of Amcor Rigid Packaging. “We are already working with customers to increase recycled materials in packaging and increase recycling rates worldwide. The goals of the U.S. Plastics Pact are closely aligned with Amcor’s own sustainability agenda and we can leverage our in-depth industry expertise and resources at scale to advance the transition to a circular economy.”  

As a founding member of the U.S. Plastics Pact, Amcor has agreed to collectively deliver against four ambitious goals by 2025: 

1. Define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2021 and take measures to eliminate them by 2025;
2. All plastic packaging to be 100 percent reusable, recyclable, or compostable; ​ 
3. Undertake ambitious actions to effectively recycle or compost 50 percent of plastic packaging; and 
4. The average recycled content or responsibly sourced bio-based content in plastic packaging to be 30 percent.

Amcor believes there will always be a role for responsible packaging that offers differentiated functionality while minimizing waste in the environment. A responsible packaging system will require innovative packaging design, improvements to waste management infrastructure and increased consumer participation.  

Amcor is making progress towards its commitment to develop all its packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025, significantly increase use of recycled materials, and drive greater recycling of packaging around the world.

For more information, visit https://www.amcor.com.