By : Govind Tekake
In 2022, Nestlé made a discreet change to their plastic packaging targets, moving from "recyclable" to "designed for recycling" by 2025.
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This modification adds 280,000 metric tonnes of non-recyclable garbage, or 30 Eiffel Towers, as first reported by Bloomberg.
Multinational corporations were criticised by Christian Dixon of the Environmental Investigation Agency for not fulfilling their environmental obligations in spite of having an abundance of resourc
Nestlé clarified that because of infrastructural limitations, the phrasing had to be changed to reflect what it could really control.
Despite changing the 2025 target, a Nestlé representative reiterated the company's long-term commitment to using only recyclable or reusable packaging.
Achieving these goals is technically difficult since the standards governing the collection of recyclable plastic are complicated and expensive.
Nestlé is not the only company that has lately lowered its plastic reduction objectives; Unilever, Mondelēz, and Ferrero have all done the same.
The CEO of Nestlé, Mark Schneider, stated that a significant barrier to achieving ambitious packaging targets is the rapid escalation of food prices
Merely 20% of the 2.2 million tonnes of plastic packaging produced in the UK comes from recycled sources, illustrating the unpredictability of the recycling industry.