Plastic waste continues to grow – even for companies committed to cutting it
Most members of the ReSource: Plastic initiative have reported increases in plastic tonnage.
Six of the nine companies committed to reducing plastic use through WWF’s ReSource: Plastic initiative have reported increases in plastic tonnage – proving that cutting plastic waste remains one of the more challenging aspects of a Chief Sustainability Officer’s job.
The latest ReSource: Plastic progress report, released this week by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), reveals that despite efforts to cut unnecessary plastic use, the overall amount sold by the initiative’s nine members to retailers or consumers, or discarded in house, increased by 0.8% from 2021 to 2022 – to a total of 7.2 million metric tonnes.
