The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) has named Metcash and 7-Eleven for being the industry’s first merchants to endorse the soft plastic recycling campaign.
The industry-led National Plastics Recycling Scheme (NPRS) seeks to convert difficult-to-recycle soft plastics destined for landfill into food-grade packaging and other materials.
This will be accomplished by collecting domestic soft plastics from numerous collection routes, including curbside, and filling holes in the recycling chain, resulting in a genuinely circular economy and a long-term solution for recycling soft plastics.
7-Eleven and Metcash are among over 40 brands, including Nestle, Unilever, and Fonterra, dedicated to a strong circular economy for soft plastics.
“Collaboration with all parts of the packaging and recycling supply chain is central to advancing a sustainable circular economy for soft plastics in Australia,” said AFGC CEO Tanya Barden.
“But supermarkets and food and grocery suppliers cannot do this alone. This is bigger than any single industry, so we need everybody on board.”
Metcash, a member of the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), has adopted its 2025 national packaging targets, which include increasing the percentage of reusable, recyclable, or compostable packaging and phasing out problematic and wasteful single-use packaging.
