News, Events and Webinars
Timeline
This report reflects on the past three years of growth and development in reducing plastics pollution in the ANZPAC region.
This report provides an overview of the 2023 ANZPAC Recyclability Assessment for plastic packaging throughout the ANZPAC region.
This summary report highlights the opportunities to reduce the environmental impacts of plastics used in the Northern Territory in Australia.
This summary report investigates the importance of reuse models as upstream solutions, and key considerations to ensure success of these models.
Read the full report here.
Designed for the ANZPAC region, this resource consists of a set of principles and guidelines to support our Members in creating plastic packaging designed for circularity; marking the first instalment of a deep dive into ANZPAC’s approaches in achieving plastic circularity across the region.
This next Impact Report showcases plastic packaging usage from 2022 data, which demonstrates why brand collaboration with local organisations on regional projects is critical to make true progress towards a circular economy for plastics.
Plastic Free July is a high-impact global event promoting the minimisation of plastic waste over the month of July across businesses and consumers. This year, the teams at ANZPAC and APCO have taken the pledge to go plastic free, and we invite you to join us on the journey to a more sustainable future in Australia.
The Plastic Free Foundation is a supporter of ANZPAC and a Changemaker. Plastic Free July is a key initiative of the Plastic Free Foundation that allows us to work towards their vision of seeing a world free of plastic waste.
For more information, or to take the pledge, visit Plastic Free July here. #PlasticFreePledge
In collaboration with the Pacific Ocean Litter Project, this resource was designed to help our Members and stakeholders understand and navigate the evolving landscape of single-use plastics legislation across the ANZPAC region.
This guide is tailored to the unique needs and challenges of the ANZPAC geographies, highlighting regional context, such as regulations and waste management infrastructures. It will assist businesses and packaging manufacturers in eliminating single-use plastic packaging and support avoidance and reduction interventions to tackle the issue of plastic pollution across regional and remote Australia and New Zealand, and Pacific Islands.
This report provides insights into the performance against the ANZPAC 2025 Regional Plastic Targets and how certain system interventions can influence the progress towards the Targets. It evaluates the packaging flows for the ANZPAC region from the point of consumption to collection, sorting, and recovery by using the data obtained for the 2020 ANZPAC Baseline Recyclability Assessment.
Read the summary and full report.
APCO, as ANZPAC’s parent organisation, is an official endorser of the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty. This webinar explains what the Treaty means and why it’s important for businesses.
The 2021 ANZPAC Annual Impact Report provides a valuable snapshot into the beginning of our journey as a connected region, measuring Member results against the 2025 ANZPAC Regional Plastic Targets.
This webinar provided insight to the main findings and recommendations from the ANZPAC reuse study and tangible examples from reuse experts on implementing reuse models followed by a Q&A panel discussion.
- Please log into your Basecamp account to access this Member exclusive resource, please contact the ANZPAC Team if you do not have one established.
This publication has been developed to support ANZPAC Members to effectively communicate the need to use necessary plastic packaging appropriately and responsibly. By providing consistent and evidence-based messaging, this guide is designed to help cut through the emotion and confusion surrounding plastic, helping businesses have open conversations with staff, customers and stakeholders.
This summary report profiles reuse models and assesses their viability across three geographic archetypes. The study found that B2B models are more viable than B2C models, with consumer behavior and infrastructure costs being major challenges.
- Please log into your Basecamp account to access the full report, please contact the ANZPAC Team if you do not have one established.
This report provides an overview of the 2020 ANZPAC Baseline Recyclability Assessment for plastic packaging throughout the ANZPAC region.
This webinar outlines the approach required by key players across the entire plastics value chain to achieve the ANZPAC Regional Plastics Targets by 2025.
Read the Roadmap here.
Hosted by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and ANZPAC Supporter, SPREP, this webinar looked at a ‘whole-of-society’ approach to plastic pollution in the Pacific and how regional Non-State Actors are helping curb the plastics crisis and influencing change.
This resource provides a set of 12 Australian industry-agreed standard specifications for recycled polymer materials.
Learn more about separate specifications for individual polymers here.
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. We are proud to announce the successful applicants for the inaugural ACAG and thank everyone who took the time to apply. See the ACAG here.