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The New Zealand Packaging Accord is a voluntary initiative to cut down on wasteful packaging. Those signing it – the packaging & packaged goods industry, local and central government and the recycling operators – are voluntarily committing to doing what they can to reduce the proportion of packaging in our total waste stream.
The Accord is the base document from which each sector has developed five year action plans. The progress against these action plans is reported each year in the Annual Progress Report, the content of which is presented to all parties at the annual Progress Report Launch.
Accord signatories are aiming to save resources when they design, make and choose packaging and do their best to recover and reuse materials. This means producers and packaging users will take more responsibility from the beginning to the end of the packaging lifecycle. This is an example of ‘extended producer responsibility’, a core principle of the New Zealand Waste Strategy 2002, supporting sustainable development.
JOINING THE PACKAGING ACCORD
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