ACS is signing up as a supporter of the Waste and Resources Action Programme’s (WRAP’s) UK Plastics Pact, joining other leading business groups in affirming its commitment to making the convenience sector more sustainable.
The Plastics Pact has four main objectives:
- Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single-use packaging through redesign, innovation or alternative (reuse) delivery model;
- 100% of plastics packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable;
- 70% of plastics packaging effectively recycled or composted;
- 30% average recycled content across all plastic packaging.
ACS chief executive James Lowman said: “We are committed to working with WRAP and other environmental groups on finding ways to make the products that our members sell more recyclable.
“The convenience sector is currently facing huge challenges through a range of different policy interventions across the UK, including bans on some single use plastics, the introduction of differing deposit return schemes in different countries, and the expansion of the extended producer responsibility scheme – it is important that we introduce measures that will be maximally effective without imposing unnecessary costs and burdens on retailers.”
