Приключения бывшего управленческого консультанта в Корпоративной Америке. Пишу о своей работе и борьбе с ветряными мельницами, а также просто о всяких наблюдениях о местном бизнесе
Т.к. чат в эти дни горит темой sustainability, вот интересный факт - есть такой Plastics Pact, 250 компаний подключилось. Но по факту много букв, а импакт далеко не очевидный. Имхо, на тему sustainability будет много всего такого - полировки вординга до того момента, когда реального импакта мало:
Broadly, Pact targets aim to: eliminate unnecessary packaging and single-use plastics; transition to entirely reusable, recyclable, or compostable plastic packaging; increase plastic collection and recycling; and incorporate more recycled content into plastics. In the U.S., the Pact is administered by The Recycling Partnership and the World Wildlife Fund, and has several new corporate signatories including Clorox, Colgate Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Molson Coors, Mondelez and Target. Other U.S. partners, including Coca-Cola and Amcor, had already signed the pact in other regions. Most country pacts set 2025 as the deadline for achieving targets. By 2025, the U.S. seeks 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging, 50% of plastic packaging effectively recycled or composted, and 30% recycled or bio-based content in packaging. Europe’s more ambitious 2025 goal is 70% packaging recycled or composted. The targets are not as aggressive as they might appear. Plastic bottles could qualify as ‘reusable’ because they can be re-filled and re-closed by consumers, for instance, which is how they have to date avoided single-use plastic bans. No strict definition of reusable is given in either the U.S. or original Plastics Pact document. Many packaging formats could fall into a reusable category simply by having a lid. Stricter definitions of ‘recyclable’ and ‘effectively recycled’ are also needed to give the Pact bite. The plastics most commonly used for packaging, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and high- and low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE), can already be recycled The 30% recycled content target in the Pact merely represents what can be achieved under status quo. This is the amount of low-quality recycled material that plastic packaging can tolerate without affecting performance or appearance. To boost recycled content beyond these levels, new investment in sorting and advanced recycling technologies is needed. This target does not incentivize that additional spending.