On August 25, Henkel North America joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative rooted in goals intended to drive systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches, setting a national strategy, and creating scalable solutions to create a path forward toward a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025.
 
The U.S. Pact is a collaboration led by The Recycling Partnership, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and Ellen MacArthur Foundation. As part of the U.S. Pact, activators like Henkel and L’Oréal USA recognize that significant, systemwide change is imperative to realize a circular economy for plastics.
 
"Henkel is committed to developing more intelligent packaging for the benefit of people and the planet. Our mission is to integrate materials from sustainable sources into intelligent designs to complete the circle," said Jillaine Dellis, head of sustainability for Henkel North America's Consumer Products business.

Dellis continues, "We are proud to join the U.S. Plastics Pact as a founding member, reinforcing Henkel's own comprehensive commitments to develop solutions that minimize and manage plastic waste."
 
As a founding Activator of the U.S. Plastics Pact, Henkel has agreed to collectively deliver against these four goals:
 

• Define a list of packaging to be designated as problematic or unnecessary by 2021 and take measures to eliminate them by 2025.
• By 2025, all plastic packaging is 100% reusable, recyclable, or compostable.
• By 2025, undertake ambitious actions to effectively recycle or compost 50% of plastic packaging.
• By 2025, the average recycled content or responsibly sourced bio-based content in plastic packaging will be 30%.

Henkel's Progress So Far

Henkel says its North American consumer products businesses are well on their way to achieving the company's global target of 100 percent of packaging being recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025.

The company also aims to reduce the amount of new plastics from fossil sources in its consumer products by 50% by 2025. To help avoid the disposal of waste into the environment, Henkel's North America consumer products manufacturing facilities are also on target to achieve zero waste to landfill by 2021.

As part of its broader sustainability strategy, the company has set global climate and energy commitments including being climate positive by 2040, with 2025 targets that include a 65% reduction of the CO2 emissions of its production, and a reduction of 100 million tons of CO2 saved together with its consumers, customers and suppliers.

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