Coca-Cola Amatil's packaging to be 100 percent recyclable by 2025

02 Oct 2018 --- Australian beverages manufacturer Coca-Cola Amatil has committed to making 100 percent of its Australian packaging recyclable by 2025, including all bottles, cans, plastic wrap, glass and cardboard. The company will also work towards phasing out unnecessary single-use packaging through improved design, innovation or the use of recycled alternatives.

Group Managing Director Alison Watkins said the commitments were part of the National Packaging Targets announced by Federal Environment Minister, Melissa Price MP.

“As a beverages manufacturer, we’re serious about playing our part in addressing recycling,” says Watkins.

“We’ve heard the community message loud and clear - that unnecessary packaging is unacceptable and we all need to work together to reduce the amount entering litter streams, the environment and the oceans.”

“The National Packaging Targets aim to make a substantive improvement in packaging waste reduction, which is why we’re proud to be a founding supporter and to champion their implementation by industry,” she adds.

Australia’s 2025 National Packaging Targets are:

• 100 percent of all Australia’s packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025 or earlier
• 70 percent of Australia’s plastic packaging will be recycled or composted by 2025
• 30 percent average recycled content will be included across all packaging by 2025
• Problematic and unnecessary single-use plastic packaging will be phased out through design, innovation or introduction of alternative

Earlier this year the Mount Franklin 600ml bottle was launched using 100 percent recycled content, with trials underway on reaching an average 50 percent recycled content across the Australian portfolio by 2020.

Amatil and brand partner and shareholder The Coca-Cola Company is also developing sustainable packaging goals to increase the recycled content in plastic bottles and support recycling collection in Australia. Recognizing the threat of marine plastic litter, The Coca-Cola Company this week joined governments and industry leaders to sign onto the Ocean Plastics Charter. Originally adopted at the 2018 G7 Summit, the Ocean Plastics Charter calls on governments, industry and the public to rethink their relationship with plastics.