Henkel Debuts US Plastics Pact ‘Roadmap to 2025’ for Sustainability

Henkel is helping to launch The U.S. Plastics Pact's (U.S. Pact) “Roadmap to 2025.” The new Roadmap is an aggressive national strategy illustrating how Henkel and other stakeholders will achieve systemic change and accelerate progress through coordinated initiatives to transition away from today’s take-make-waste model to a circular economy where plastics never become waste, said the company.
 
To reinforce its efforts on this front, Henkel announced new aggressive sustainable packaging targets last year that focus on:

• Achieving Henkel’s global target of 100% of its packaging being recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. At the end of 2019, the compaby achieved this for 85% of its packaging.
• Reducing the amount of virgin plastic from fossil sources in consumer goods businesses (e.g., Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care) by 50%.
• And striving for Zero Waste by supporting waste collection and recycling initiatives, and investing in innovative solutions and technologies to promote closed-loop recycling.

“As a founding member of The U.S. Plastics Pact, we are proud to lead this new Roadmap rollout that aligns with Henkel’s mission to develop solutions that minimize and manage plastic waste. Through our new ambitious packaging targets, we are making great strides to reduce our use of virgin plastic and to integrate materials from sustainable sources into packaging designs for our laundry and beauty products,” said Jillaine Dellis, Head of Sustainability for Henkel North America’s Consumer Products business. “We are fully committed to reaching these targets by 2025 to ensure we’re one step closer to achieving a circular economy in the U.S.”
 
The U.S. Plastics Pact is a consortium led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network, which unites a holistic ecosystem of cross-industry stakeholders behind a common vision and national strategy to address plastic waste at its source by 2025.