Road map to implement the national phase out of business-to-consumer EPS packaging

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) has published a new resource – the Roadmap to implement the national phase out of business-to-consumer EPS packaging.

The roadmap sets out a phased approach to 2025 and the development of a product stewardship scheme for certain formats and was developed in consultation with industry and governments.

The Federal Government has marked some formats of business-to-consumer EPS packaging for phase-out, as these formats have been identified as problematic and unnecessary single-use plastics.

The roadmap supports the achievement of the 2025 National Packaging Targets including the target for the phase out of problematic and unnecessary single-use plastic packaging by 2025.

Industry has already taken action to replace some of these business-to-consumer EPS packaging items with other materials. This roadmap builds on those existing initiatives to accelerate the phase out and aims to define a nationally consistent approach on EPS packaging

Source: https://info.apco.org.au/