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Central Virginia Waste Management Authority has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, an initiative designed to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse approaches, setting a national strategy, and creating a path toward a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025.
Led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund in partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the U.S. Pact is the first North American Pact of its kind. The pact will convene more than 60 brands, retailers, NGOs, and government agencies across the plastics value chain to unify approaches to rethink the way we design, use, and reuse plastics.
As a founding Activator of the U.S. Plastics Pact, CVWMA has committed to join in the effort to meet these four ambitious goals: to define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2021 and take measures to eliminate them by 2025; to make all plastic packaging 100% reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025; to effectively recycle or compost 50% of plastic packaging by 2025; and to raise the recycled content or responsibly sourced bio-based content in plastic packaging to 30% by 2025.
“We are excited to be part of the U.S. Plastics Pact, furthering our mission to affect change that is productive and that will have lasting positive impacts on the environment locally and globally,” said Kim Hynes, executive director of the CVWMA.
