Amcor is proud to have contributed to the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Progress Report, led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which was published yesterday.

Amcor has been a signatory of the Global Commitment since 2018. These progress disclosures support increased transparency and enable better, evidence-based solutions to address plastic waste. Our roadmap to transitioning all of our plastic packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025 is well established and this report confirms our progress towards achieving that goal.

As the report shows, we used 41% more post-consumer recycled (PCR) content over the last year while 79% of our plastic packaging is now designed for recyclability. This puts us on track to meet also our 2025 target of using more recycled content in our products.

Using the Global Commitment’s criteria for recyclability, 47% of our packaging is badged as ‘recyclable in practice and at scale’. The framework used by the Global Commitment demands we count towards that figure only packaging for which a 30% recycling/composting rate is achieved across multiple regions, collectively representing at least 400 million inhabitants.

Driving that large-scale recyclability requires greater investment in waste management, which will ensure that industry innovation to improve recyclability is not held back by a lack of up-to-date recycling infrastructure and capacity.

Amcor is collaborating with our customers and with other packaging companies to support a UN treaty on plastic waste – so that governments and other players can work together to ensure that proper waste management and recycling infrastructure are available to everyone.

Amcor will continue to utilise our world-leading R&D capabilities and our unique innovation footprint to tackle the problem of waste leakage into the environment. We will also continue to lend our expertise to partners and policy makers so that mechanisms to support recycling are designed and implemented effectively. Working together, the value chain can continue to build on the progress that the Global Commitment Progress Report highlights.

Read this year’s report here.