27 Feb 2023 --- Colombia has launched a plastics pact to tackle the environmental impacts of packaging waste and support international work developing a circular economy for plastics. The Colombia Plastics Pact was developed and launched through a partnership between The Business Commitment to Recycling (CEMPRE) and The Waste and Research Action Programme (WRAP) with the support of UK Research and Innovation. Colombia will aim to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic and transform all plastic packaging to reusable, recyclable or compostable formats. The government will also work to increase the country’s plastic recycling rate to 50% and the average recycled content of plastic packaging to 30%. David Rogers, WRAP’s international director tells PackagingInsights that he is “extremely optimistic” about the situation in Colombia and the country’s newly established plastics pact.
