1 THE UK PLASTICS PACT PROGRESS REPORT Tracking UK Plastics Pact member progress and future commitments towards the four Pact targets May 2019 2 INTRODUCTION WRAP launched The UK Plastics Pact on the 26th April Important to note 2018. Since its inception the Pact now has over 100 organisations from across the entire plastics value These pledges represent a small selection of the chain signed up as members and supporters. Click large number of initiatives currently underway in this here to see a list of all our members and sector. Due to their sensitive nature, there are many supporters. Each has agreed to targets to 2025 with a other initiatives ongoing which will be shared in due roadmap in place which sets out the direction of course. In some instances columns in the tables will travel for members to follow. be blank. This signifies that the organisation is either not taking action towards the target at this moment The progress tracker and pledges in time, the information is not yet ready to share publicly or that that the organisation does not work To mark the one year anniversary of The UK Plastics in a way that requires action towards that particular Pact, a selection of our members from the target. manufacturing and retail sector (who make or sell products in plastic packaging) have come together to This document will be updated regularly over the share the actions that they have taken so far and the coming years as we progress towards 2025. commitments that they are making to deliver against the targets of The UK Plastics Pact. These are A glossary of terms is available in the back of this contained in this report. report. Here. Rollover and click to 3 search by UK Plastics Member navigation Pact member A-B G-H M-N S-T ABP Beef Highland Spring Group M&S Sainsbury’s Aldi Hilton Food Group Morrisons Tata Global Beverages Arla Hovis Musgrave Taylors Of Harrogate Asda Nestle Tesco Aston Manor Cider I-J The Silver Spoon Company Barfoots Innocent o-p Boots Brakes Ocado U-V Britvic K-L Pepsico Unilever Kettle Foods Pladis Kimberly Clark Premier Foods C-D KP Snacks Procter & Gamble W Waitrose Coca-Cola European Partners Kraft Heinz Cranswick Lakeland Westmill Foods Danone UK Lidl Q-R LR Suntory Quorn Foods / Cauldron Reckitt Benckiser E-F Ecover Ella’s Kitchen Click here to go back 4 to member navigation Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single- 100% of plastics packaging to be reusable, 70% of plastics packaging effectively 30% average recycled content across all Member Action use packaging through redesign, innovation recyclable or compostable. recycled or composted. plastic packaging. or alternative (reuse) delivery model. Actions taken In 2018 we have removed We are conducting a group We now have recycling Our plastic preformed trays 577 tonnes of plastic from wide study of our plastic labelling on all products. are currently made with our supply chain through usage both to retail and 97% recycled content packaging optimisation. business to business, to (regrind and bottle flake). provide us with a detailed benchmark for future work. Planned Actions Actions taken We have stopped selling 5p We have removed almost More than 96% of our As of January 2019 33.6% of single use carrier bags, 3,000 tonnes of non- packaging is labelled in our packaging contains removing more than 900 recyclable plastic packaging accordance to OPRL recycled content. tonnes of single use plastic and replaced this with guidelines to ensure The pasta pots in our food per year. recyclable alternatives. customers are informed to go range are now made We have eliminated a total of 85% of our core range is now on how to recycle our of 95% recycled content. 250 tonnes of plastic widely recyclable. packaging. Our 2L juice drinks have packaging on fruit and veg, We have moved our pizza moved from HDPE to including aubergines, tender bases from polystyrene to rHDPE consequently stem broccoli and salad cardboard which will replacing 85 tonnes of tomatoes. eliminate 180 tonnes of virgin plastic each year. unrecyclable plastic annually. Click here to go back 5 to member navigation Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single- 100% of plastics packaging to be reusable, 70% of plastics packaging 30% average recycled content across all Member Action use packaging through redesign, innovation recyclable or compostable. effectively recycled or plastic packaging. or alternative (reuse) delivery model. composted. Actions taken We have removed the plastic We have cut more than 1,050 We’re working with our stem in cotton earbuds and tonnes of non-recyclable plastic suppliers, who are replaced it with a cardboard annually by moving our Ashfield encouraged to bring alternative. Farm Range of sliced cooked initiatives to increase the We have redesigned our meats to recyclable packaging. percentage of recycled nappy packaging which has We have replaced 630 tonnes of content to each of their created a 15% reduction in non-recyclable plastic in our fresh updates. packaging, saving 20 tonnes meats and 250 tonnes in produce of plastic each year. by swapping our black trays with clear ones. Teams produce quarterly internal reports monitoring progress towards this target and looking at ways to further reduce non- recyclable plastic packaging across all ranges. Click here to go back 6 to member navigation Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single- 100% of plastics packaging to be reusable, 70% of plastics packaging effectively 30% average recycled content across all Member Action use packaging through redesign, innovation recyclable or compostable. recycled or composted. plastic packaging. or alternative (reuse) delivery model. Planned actions We are currently trialing five We have set internal This will be regularly We will be assessing each veg lines without plastic recyclability targets to reviewed with the aim of all commodity group on a packaging in Scotland (savoy ensure we meet our 2022 products being labelled with monthly basis to identify cabbage, red cabbage, white target of 100% widely recycling guidance by the individual products with less cabbage, pointed cabbage recyclable on own brand end of the year. than 30% recycled content and cauliflowers). The trial is products. to ensure the goal is met. estimated to save more than half a tonne of plastic. If rolled out across the UK, the initiative would eliminate more than 110 tonnes of plastic wrapping a year. Actions taken New packaging solution being Phasing out all Polystyrene Asda own label AI app May launch of Arla Organic developed to allow drinking yogurt pots, so all will be developed to encourage and “eco cycle bottle”. Ran a from the lid to remove the Polypropylene. New Skyr educate consumers on how number of trials and straw and improve consumer pots developed as fully to recycle with engaging awaiting final shelf life experience. Polypropylene and videos and information. results on 50% content. Testing and developing spoon recyclable. Cravendale and Arla Organic All bottles produced out of alternatives, including wood milk labels updated to Aylesbury are now made based. improve on pack recycling from 40% rHDPE following instructions. trials and tests. Similar trials being conducted at other sites. Click here to go back 7 to member navigation Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single- 100% of plastics packaging to be 70% of plastics packaging effectively 30% average recycled content across all Member Action use packaging through redesign, innovation reusable, recyclable or compostable. recycled or composted. plastic packaging. or alternative (reuse) delivery model. Actions taken Working with Eurokey on a Been in dialogue with trial to collect and process Recycling Technologies on waste plastic as well as how we can work with develop wrap with recycled them and test our content. film/flexibles portfolio. Setting up line trials on Butter, Spreads and Margarine (BSM) cover leaf and material samples. Kicked off a project with Loop on how we might develop a solution for BSM in a re-usable tub (steel/aluminium/silicone). Planned actions Explore alternatives to Moving all of our yogurt ASDA own label AI app Switching to 40% rHDPE plastic spoons on our ‘On packaging to developed to encourage content in all our milk The Go’ OTG yogurt pots. Polypropylene by the end and educate consumers bottles across our sites, Explore bore seal milk of 2019 which will make it on how to recycle with pending material bottles to allow removal of all recyclable. engaging videos and availability. Have been at the lift and peel which is Work with partners and information. 30% for over 2 years. multi layer and non- WRAP on solutions to Look to duplicate on Arla Secure world first of 50% recyclable. film/flexibles to help on branded products to assist rHDPE milk bottle with the cheese packaging. consumers. Arla Organic “eco cycle bottle”. Click here to go back 8 to member navigation Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Eliminate problematic or unnecessary single- 100% of plastics packaging to be 70% of plastics packaging effectively 30% average recycled content across all Member Action use packaging through redesign, innovation reusable, recyclable or compostable. recycled or composted. plastic packaging. or alternative (reuse) delivery model. Planned actions Explore on farm solutions to Redevelop Lurpak Audit of Arla branded Working on incorporating farm plastic waste (such as packaging to be in line with products to improve OPRL more rPET into our PET wrap etc). our UK Anchor packaging labelling. milk bottles. which is 100% recyclable All new packaging Work with WRAP on PP and and move away from multi /packaging refreshes to how we can develop and layer tubs.