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The EMF has warned that “the global community is still way off course in the pursuit of eradicating plastic waste and pollution”.

Discover the latest annual progress report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation on its Global Commitment, aimed at tackling global plastic pollution. Learn about the challenges and successes of signatories, including brands and retailers, in reducing their use of virgin plastics and increasing post-consumer recycled content.

United Kingdom, 31 October 2023 – The biggest global voluntary effort to tackle plastic pollution and waste shows it is possible to make progress on a pressing environmental issue, yet tougher measures are now needed to curb the crisis, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Since 2018, more than 1,000 organisations have given their backing to the Global Commitment, led by the Foundation in partnership with the UN Environment Programme, to stop plastic packaging from becoming waste. Over the past five years, business signatories – representing 20% of the world’s plastic packaging i...

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation says around 20 trillion flexible packaging items will end up in the ocean by 2040 unless action is taken.

The report claims organizations which signed a 2018 commitment to stop plastic packaging from becoming waste have made progress, but others are lagging behind.