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Packaging is a resource that should never be wasted.
UNESDA’s Circular Packaging Vision 2030 acknowledges the central role that beverage packaging can play in a circular economy. Europe’s soft drinks sector is committing that its packaging will be fully circular by the end of the decade. To start with, it pledges that by 2025 all our plastic, metal and glass packaging will be 100% recyclable and all PET bottles will contain a minimum average 50% rPET. By 2030, beverage packaging will be 90% collected, there will be more refillable packaging and we will have moved towards 100% recycled and/or renewable PET bottles.
With this Vision 2030 our industry is standing up to be counted. We are declaring our intention and commitment to be part of the solution and to support the European Commission in accelerating the transition towards a green economy.
Europe pledges to make beverage packaging fully circular by 2030 UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, a trade organization representing the non-alcoholic beverage sector, has set targets for European beverage packaging to be fully circular by 2030. This will be achieved by using rPET, refillable bottles, and boosting collection rates.
An interim goals is for 50% rPET by 2025, while the organization wants to see recycled or renewable material accounting for all PET by 2030.
UNESDA – which represents 23 national associations across Europe as well as counting Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Suntory and Nestlé among its members - says it supports the EU’s ambition of making Europe the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050 and building a circular economy.
EU beverage packaging aims to be fully circular by 2030
22 February 2021
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UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe pledges that EU[1] beverage packaging[2] will be fully circular by 2030.
Launching its Circular Packaging Vision 2030, the industry commits that by 2025 its packaging will be 100% recyclable and its PET bottles using 50% recycled content. It ambitions that by 2030, its PET bottles will be made from 100% recycled and/or renewable PET, where technically and economically feasible. It also pledges that more than 90% of its packaging will be collected and that it will use more refillable packaging. These actions, says UNESDA, are directly contributing to the EU circular economy transition and surpassing EU targets set out in legislation.Â
Governments urged to accelerate circular economy transition through green recovery plans
As nations continue to deliver their strategies for the economic recovery from Covid-19, they must better embed measures to improve resource efficiency, recycling, reuse and nature restoration, according to a major new policy briefing.
According to think-tank Circle Economy, less than 9% of the 100 billion tonnes of virgin raw materials extracted each year are reused or recycled
The briefing has been produced by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and outlines a universal set of goals that policymakers can work towards – in collaboration with businesses – to shift economies away from unsustainable, linear models of consumption.