New Partnerships Strengthen Canada Plastics Pact's Efforts To Eliminate Plastic Waste
July 02 2024 - 8:00AM
The Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) is pleased to welcome EcoTank Canada
and the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) to its
expanding network of partners in Q2 of 2024.
EcoTank Canada
EcoTank Canada is committed to leading environmental innovation
by expanding its network of refillable windshield washer fluid
dispensers across North America. Their efforts aim to revolutionize
the automotive industry while reducing reliance on single-use
plastics. Since the company’s launch in January 2022, EcoTank
Canada has eliminated the need for more than 115,000 plastic jugs.
They now manage over 289 dispensers in 129 locations.
In April 2024, CPP founding Partner Canadian Tire Corporation
partnered with EcoTank Canada to further the impact of its ongoing
windshield-washer fluid dispenser initiative as part of CPP’s Reuse
Accelerator project, an initiative partially funded by Environment
and Climate Change Canada.
Solid Waste Association of North America
(SWANA)
SWANA is a collective of 10,000 dedicated professionals from
both the public and private sectors. The association’s mission is
to propel the transition from solid waste management to resource
management, uniting around the pillars of education, advocacy,
safety, and research. Their members provide critical roles in
collecting and processing plastics to enable recycling and to
prevent plastic pollution. They are building connections to support
designing for recycling, strengthening demand for recycled content,
and supporting critical infrastructure.
"To eliminate plastic waste and pollution, we need a holistic
strategy that includes both upstream and downstream solutions.
These new partnerships allow us to better address unnecessary and
problematic plastics by providing reusable or refillable
alternatives where it makes sense, and designing the plastics we do
need to be easily recyclable,” said Cher Mereweather, Managing
Director of the Canada Plastics Pact.
Since the CPP launched in January 2021, various initiatives have
been underway to address the opportunities and challenges to
enacting systems change, such as the formation of strategic working
groups that bring together the key stakeholders to tackle the
pressing issues around plastic waste and pollution. The CPP's
guidance documents, driven by the collective expertise of the Pact
Partners within its working groups, are a critical tool that
supports the implementation of change in Partner operations, by
sharing knowledge and innovative solutions.
This past year, CPP has published several guidance documents to
accelerate the transition to a circular economy for plastics.
Notably, its guidance document to support the elimination of
unnecessary and problematic plastics was developed by a
cross-section of CPP Partners to be used by all Canadian
stakeholders that put plastics in the market. It provides guidance
to industry on how to determine whether various plastic packaging
is necessary, and if it is, what packaging is likely to have a
place in the circular economy.
Resources:
- Visit our website at
www.plasticspact.ca.
- Read quotes from CPP Partners.
Media inquiries:
To arrange an interview, please contact:
Moojan Haidari, Communications Manager
mhaidari@plasticspact.ca
About the Canada Plastics Pact
The Canada Plastics Pact is leading Canada's response to the
escalating plastic crisis.
We exist to eliminate plastic waste by accelerating and scaling
the solutions that will keep plastics in the economy and out of
people, animals and nature.
Through fostering innovation and collaboration, more than 100
Partners from across the plastics value chain are taking meaningful
steps to eliminate unnecessary and problematic plastics, redesign
packaging, and increase their use of recycled plastic.
CPP is a member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Global
Plastics Pact network and is a solution space of The Natural Step
Canada in partnership with the Smart Prosperity Institute, whose
shared vision is a strong and inclusive economy that thrives within
nature’s limits.