World’s Top Plastics Users Likely to Miss Sustainability Goals
- Report targets use of hard-to-recycle flexible packaging
- Companies say government recycling infrastructure is needed
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The majority of the planet’s biggest plastics users look almost certain to miss a target of only using reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by 2025.
Companies that make some of the world’s best-known drinks and snacks, including Nestle SA, Unilever Plc, PepsiCo Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and Mars Inc., have signed on to the 2025 plastics promise, together representing a fifth of all plastic packaging produced globally. But continued use of difficult-to-recycle items — like sauce sachets and transparent salad bags — is keeping those companies from making good on their pledge, according to a report produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Program.