潜水简介:
- 蒙德利斯has pledgedto reduce its use of virgin plastic in rigid plastic packaging by at least 25%, or by5% in its overall plastic packaging portfolio by 2025, according to a statement. It aims to reach its target by eliminating plastic material,increasing its use of recycled content and adopting reuse models for its product portfolio.
- 该公司还呼吁在美国建立“合理”的联邦回收计划，以涉及灵活的塑料膜和其他塑料。Mondelez使用轻巧的塑料来降低其环境足迹，但认为灵活的电影需要进行回收基础设施改进。
- 蒙德利斯invests more than $30 million each year in technology, resources and recycling infrastructure. Between 2019 and 2025, it expects to spend about $300 million toward plastic sustainability efforts.尽管没有联邦塑料回收框架，但蒙德勒斯的努力可能会从中受益。
潜水见解：
蒙德利斯's new plastic packaging goals expand on the company's promise to become more eco-friendly in the coming years. Specifically, it's tackling its use of virgin plastics.
The company is close to hitting its earlier goal to use 5% recycled content by weight in all of its plastic packaging and to design all packaging for recyclability by 2025. According to Mondelez,94% of its packaging is already designed to be recycled. But targeting its use of new plastic puts it in step with announcements by other large food and beverage manufacturers.Coca-Cola is reducing its use of new plasticby 20% compared to 2018, and雀巢花费21亿美元to shift from virgin plastic packaging to food-grade recycled products.
使用可回收或可堆肥商品不是减少包装浪费的唯一方法。近年来，已经引入了技术以完全消除包装的某些部分。德国公司Südpack，found a way to get rid of the traycommonly used in meat products and developed a plastic seal that uses 40% less plastic than the film that is currently used to keep meat fresh. Recently, General Mills'Nature Valley brand unveiled a new recyclable wrapper并选择不为材料申请专利。作为一家零食公司，生产丽思饼干和奥利奥的零食，Mondelez可以调整包装器以满足其需求。
Companies' new initiatives aimed at reducing their impact on theenvironment have a promising future.消费者对减少塑料的使用更感兴趣，2019年PBS NewShour的民意调查表明，美国有24％的成年人愿意支付5％的费用，以便拥有更多的环保日常塑料。
但是，制造商使用可回收包装的承诺只是难题的一部分。为塑料包装开发回收框架是另一个。
"Increasing recyclability of materials is a great start, but we need actual recycling rates of various materials to increase," Christine Montenegro McGrath, vice president and chief of impact for Mondelez, said in a statement. "Compared to rigid plastics like PET, flexible plastic films, like the flow wraps we use on our snacks, are still difficult to collect, sort and reprocess economically, because the infrastructure doesn’t exist yet for this to be done at scale."
虽然目前没有联邦计划来支持回收食品包装浪费，但可能会从管道下进行。作为总统候选人，乔·拜登（Joe Biden）说，美国应该逐步使用塑料购物袋，社区和环境团体正在促使他去采取措施减少塑料包装进入虚度e stream.
This is asinvestors are also putting pressure上大食品和其他公司限制一次性塑料包装在美国未能与其他G7国家签署2018年的协议之后，到2040年，限制了一次性塑料的使用。
蒙德利斯's stepped-up efforts on plastic packaging could get a needed boost by a greater federal commitment toward recycling and sustainability.
