This Action aligns to the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics:

5. Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win 

2. Incentivize and support product design for reuse and recycling of plastics 

Ambition 

ReSource seeks to activate large-scale circular solutions on plastics in consumer-oriented sectors that maximize, measure, and multiply both environmental and social benefits. 

Objectives  

Achieve 100% elimination of plastic pollution within its Member companies through a three-pronged approach that seeks to maximize, measure and multiply their impact on solving the plastic pollution crisis. This means helping companies: 

• Prioritize the activities that will yield the greatest impact, including which interventions will most effectively reduce unnecessary plastic and plastic waste across the company’s plastic footprint,  

• Implement those activities against an innovative methodology and measure their progress annually, and  

• Facilitate collaboration with other companies, stakeholders and governments to incite new solutions and investments 

Location

Global

Partners

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company, Ellen Macarthur Foundation, Ocean Conservancy. Keurig Dr Pepper, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Tetra Pak, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark 

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics: 

5. Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win

6. Set up Functioning Collection Systems

9. Integrate and Advance Decent Work in the Transition to a Circular Economy for Plastics

10. Investigate Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of Renewable Material Inputs for Plastics;

Project description

Plastics Policy Playbook and Implementation seeks to improve ollection and put an end to marine plastics by innovating public/private policy measures for government and business and engaging with governments (including cities through Urban Ocean), business, and NGOs to keep trash out of the ocean.

Location

Global

Partners

Ocean Conservancy 

Accenture

The Trash Free Seas Alliance © 

The Resilient Cities Network 

The Circulate Initiative 

The Centre for Marinelife Conservation (Vietnam) 

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics: 

4. Stimulate Consumer Adoption of Plastic Reuse

2. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Reuse and Recycling of Plastic

5. Guide and Support New Business Models for Environmental, Financial, and Social Triple-Win

Project description

Consumers Beyond Wastey seeks to catalyze large-scale adoption of new waste reduction solutions such as Loop, which seeks to shift consumer consumption from disposable to durable packaging solutions. 

Location

Currently the United States and France

Partners

World Economic Forum 

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

City of Paris

NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability

PepsiCo

P&G

TerraCycle

Greenpeace

WWF

UNEP 

Unilever

Algramo

Nestle 

Closed Loop Partners

Kearney

This Action aligns with the following Calls to Action from the Circular Economy Action Agenda for Plastics:

1. Agree Which Plastics Can be Eliminated and Prepare the Market to Phase Them Out

2. Incentivize and Support Product Design for Reuse and Recycling of Plastics

6. Set up Functioning Collection Systems

Location

Global

Led by

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, committed to the creation of a circular economy that tackles some of the biggest challenges of our time, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Driven by design, a circular economy eliminates waste and pollution, keeps products and materials in use, and regenerates natural systems, creating benefits for society, the environment, and the economy. 

Project description

Over the past four years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy initiative has rallied businesses and governments behind a positive vision of a circular economy for plastics. Its 2016 and 2017 New Plastics Economy reports captured worldwide headlines, revealing the financial and environmental costs of waste plastic and pollution. In the last year, it has brought together 15 leading companies committed to work towards 100% reusable, recyclable, or compostable plastic packaging by 2025. The Global Commitment takes this work to the next level – creating a global coalition of leaders with the power to prevent plastic pollution at the source.

Long term ambition of New Plastics Economy

Create unstoppable momentum towards a plastics system that works.

Context

If we don’t act now, by 2040 the amount of plastic entering the ocean each year will triple, putting us well on the way to an ocean with more plastic than fish by 2050.

But we cannot simply recycle or reduce our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. We need a circular economy for plastic, in which it never becomes waste or pollution.

We must take three actions to create a circular economy for plastic:

The New Plastic Economy initiative is underpinned by a common vision for a circular economy for plastic, and delivered by two key voluntary mechanisms:

• By signing the Global Commitment, led in collaboration with UNEP, businesses and governments around the world agree to concrete 2025 targets under the vision, and transparent annual reporting on progress.
• Through the Plastics Pact network, countries and regions bring together key stakeholders within their specific geographical context to drive forward a circular economy for plastic, with clear 2025 targets and annual public reporting.

Each Global Commitment signatory and Plastics Pact member formally endorses the vision and the need to work towards achieving it.

Towards a UN Treaty on plastic pollution

The New Plastics Economy initiative has created exciting momentum and is a clear signal to business and policymakers that transitioning from a linear to a circular economy for plastic is a priority. But this cannot be achieved through voluntary commitments alone. An international framework for action is needed.

In November 2020, together with WWF and the Boston Consulting Group, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched a call for a UN Treaty on plastic pollution, alongside a report setting out the opportunity, and a business manifesto signed by 45 leading companies.

Objectives

Through collaboration and alignment behind a common vision, achieve tangible steps towards a circular economy for plastics.

Partners

Lead Philanthropic Partner: Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation

Philanthropic Partner: Oak Foundation 

Initiative partners: Amcor, Borealis, The Coca-Cola Company, Danone, L’Oreal, MARS, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever, Veolia and Walmart 

Contact

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