Canada Plastics Pact sees ‘slower than anticipated’ progress on 2025 goals
Published Online: January 8, 2025
Written by: Megan Quinn
"Dive Brief:
The Canada Plastics Pact showed some progress toward its 2025 goals, including reducing the use of plastic packaging considered “unnecessary or problematic” and designing more kinds of packaging to be recyclable, according to its most recent 2023-2024 impact report released in mid-December.
The report also notes incremental progress on its goal to recycle or compost at least 50% of all plastic packaging. The recycling rate for plastic packaging in 2022, the year with the latest available data, was 16%.
In a related Plastic Packaging Flow report, CPP offered more information on how it calculates the nationwide plastic packaging recycling rate. It noted that the 16% recycling rate is lower than the 20% previously reported in its 2022 impact report because its methodology now includes data from the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors, which typically have lower recycling rates. ..."
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