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Strong support for the key proposed use case principles give us a clear steer for the path to product stewardship.
A grant from The Packaging Forum has helped the Far North Environment Centre greatly reduce the volume of compostable and recyclable material from the Kaitāia Market going to landfill.
Sustainable food packaging company Ecoware has rolled out its Compost Collect programme to seven NZ cities, with the most recent being Christchurch.
The Packaging Forum is working with other key stakeholders (including composters) on resolving the issues surrounding compostable packaging. This consultation is a critical part of our collaborative work programme to progress solutions for this packaging type.
Our Composable Packaging Technical Advisory Group Project Manager Kim Renshaw (Beyond the Bin founder) will lead a webinar to introduce its work.
A recent survey of by The Packaging Forum shows that between them they have completed over 100 compostable packaging projects in the last five years.
The Packaging Forum welcomes Government’s latest move to phase-out difficult to recycle and unnecessary plastic packaging, with caution.
The Soft Plastic Recycling Scheme has published its first Accreditation Report for the period from 1st April 2018 to 31st December 2019.
Plastics New Zealand’s CEO Rachel Barker has called for a crackdown on a practice called ‘greenwashing’ – where manufacturers claim their products are renewable or plastic free when they aren’t.
