The ANZPAC Plastics Pact is part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) global Plastics Pact Network, an international effort to address plastic pollution. This network provides a consistent approach for international supply chains to deal with plastic waste traveling across borders.

Plastics Pacts help businesses, governments, and NGOs work together to create a circular economy for plastics, where plastic never becomes waste or pollution. The EMF’s global Plastics Pact Network unites over 800+ organisations from around the world, including Pacts in Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, India, Kenya, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States of America (US).

ANZPAC is a regional Plastics Pact delivered by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO). With strong relationships in government, industry associations, academia, business, and the community sector, APCO has over 20-years’ experience in bringing people and businesses together to deliver collaborative, multi-stakeholder projects. APCO worked closely with EMF to develop the program, with EMF continuing to support ANZPAC in an advisory role to enhance APCO’s hands-on experience working on the ground in the region.

By combining their expertise and resources, ANZPAC, APCO and EMF drive innovation, research, and collaboration to transform the plastic packaging system, create a more sustainable future, and reduce the environmental impact of plastic packaging.

To ensure the whole region has an active voice in shaping and governing ANZPAC, a senior steering committee of industry experts has been established to oversee the program. The ANZPAC Collective Action Group (ACAG) is a team of leading industry, government, and civil society representatives from across the supply chains in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. ACAG Members are highly experienced, committed to achieving positive environmental outcomes and willing to collaborate.