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Industry mobilised towards sustainable packaging ambition

01 July 2021

IGD has brought together a wide range of stakeholders to create a new shared ambition for the food industry, to halve the environmental impact of all packaging systems by 2030. 

Over the last year, IGD has brought a wide range of stakeholders from across the food and consumer goods industry, packaging manufacturers, waste industry and industry associations to form a sustainable packaging systems working group to create a new shared ambition for the food industry, to halve the environmental impact of all packaging systems by 2030.
 
Social Impact from IGD addresses some of the key challenges facing society, from climate change, food waste and food surplus redistribution, to accelerating industry’s progress towards Net Zero. This latest ambition is being undertaken to tackle the critical industry-issue of sustainable packaging systems. 
 
A roadmap will be created to establish a baseline, set targets and track progress towards delivering the ambition. To help accelerate progress, the working group will develop a new set of principles for the industry to help businesses make consistent decisions on packaging systems and materials. 

IGD will also commission consumer research to gain behavioural insights and better understand the barriers to the mainstream adoption of reuse and refill packaging solutions. These insights will create the opportunities to influence longer term behaviour change.
 
Commenting on the project, Mark Little, director of health and sustainability programmes at IGD, said: “The shared ambition is to create a common direction of travel over the next decade. It’s fantastic that so many organisations across the packaging, food and consumer goods industry value chain have worked with IGD to create this new ambition. We are calling on more businesses from across the industry to help shape and deliver the next phase of work.” 
 
We want more businesses to join the working group to drive progress and accelerate towards the ambition to shape this programme of work, to halve the environmental impacts of all packaging systems by 2030 while still enhancing the benefits and quality enjoyed of products and their packaging today. 


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