ZURICH, Nov. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Amcor, a global
leader in packaging, continues to achieve significant progress in
its efforts to enhance sustainability and reduce plastic waste. In
this year's sustainability report, Amcor reveals its delivery
against key target areas and re-establishes the central role that
sustainability plays in its business.
The report details efforts Amcor has taken across its rigids,
flexibles and specialty cartons businesses.
Highlights include:
- Amcor's progress in bringing its product offerings in line with
its sustainable commitments - as a result, $7.71 bn of Amcor's revenue is now generated from
products that have been designed to be recyclable.
- Amcor's increased use of post-consumer recycled resin - which
reached over 83,000 tonnes this year. This higher utilization of
PCR also reduced over 100,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions – as recycled
resin has a lower carbon footprint than virgin material.
- Continued efforts to run its operations efficiently and in line
with the highest environmental standards have seen the company
reduce waste disposal from operations by over 3,200 tonnes – a 10%
reduction – this year.
- Amcor's partnerships activity increased as Amcor joined WWF
ReSource: Plastic initiative; a global consortium of companies and
organizations collaborating to keep waste out of the
environment.
David Clark, Vice President for
Sustainability at Amcor said: "At Amcor we believe that winning
for the environment means that we are winning as a business. As a
market leader, we're committed to using our innovation capabilities
to ensure that all of our products are recyclable or reusable by
2025 – but we know that this is only one stage of the cycle. A
sustainable, responsible approach to packaging requires more than
just recyclable products, it also needs infrastructure development
and customer action. This year's sustainability report outlines our
continued work to achieve more sustainable outcomes and to use our
unique position to accelerate more sustainable solutions."
Amcor's 2020 Sustainability Report has been prepared in
accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards:
Core option and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
Containers & Packaging Sustainability Accounting Standard
version 2018-10. This is the ninth year that Amcor has reported in
accordance with GRI and the first year it has reported using the
SASB Standards.
The report will be released on Thursday 12th November
at 08:00 CET time and is accessible
alongside previous year's reports and our Sustainability Review –
which lays out Amcor's sustainability strategy and details our
progress against our objectives.
Learn more about Amcor's sustainability activities
at www.amcor.com/sustainability
About Amcor
Amcor is a global leader in developing and producing responsible
packaging for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home and
personal-care, and other products. Amcor works with leading
companies around the world to protect their products and the people
who rely on them, differentiate brands, and improve supply chains
through a range of flexible and rigid packaging, specialty cartons,
closures, and services. The company is focused on making packaging
that uses less materials, is increasingly recyclable and reusable,
and is made with more recycled content. Around 47,000 Amcor people
generate $12.5 billion in annual
sales from operations that span about 230 locations in 40-plus
countries. NYSE: AMCR; ASX: AMC
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