Launched on January 27, 2021, the Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) serves as a pre-competitive, multi-stakeholder collaboration forum for companies working towards establishing a circular economy in Canada. RCC is proud to be a founding member of the CPP, along with more than 40 partners representing industry, government, NGOs and more.
Over the past three year, the CPP has been working towards achieving the following actionable targets by 2025:
- Define a list of plastic packaging that is to be designated as problematic or unnecessary and take measures to eliminate them
- Support efforts towards 100% of plastic packaging being designed to be reusable, recyclable or compostable
- Undertake ambitious actions to ensure that at least 50% of plastic packaging is effectively recycled or composted
- Ensure an average of at least 30% recycled content across all plastic packaging (by weight)
Outlined in their 2023-24 Impact Report, the CPP has made some progress for each of these goals, but overall, it has been relatively slow. The following is a brief overview of what they have achieved so far for each target:
- In April 2024, CPP published a Guidance Document Support the Elimination of Unnecessary and Problematic Plastics. They also found that in 2023, only 4% of CPP partners had 10 problematic plastic packaging items.
- In 2023, 50% of plastic packaging put on the market by CPP partners was reusable, recyclable, or compostable.
- In 2022, the national rate of deposit return, residential, and ICI waste systems was 16%.
- In 2023, the average post-consumer recycled (PCR) content was 10%.
The CPP is expected to release an updated Roadmap to 2035 sometime in 2025 after revaluating their global commitments and targets. For more information, visit CPP’s website (et en français).
Additional Resources
- CPP video
- Video – Remarks from The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Sonia Wegge, Programme Manager, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Founding members list