Mondelez strengthens commitment towards zero waste to nature
In response to the problem of improper waste management, which leads to plastic ending up in oceans and landfills, the Philippine Alliance for recycling and Materials Sustainability (PARMS) and its member companies have committed to build and execute a strategy to manage plastic wastes. this will help ensure that by 2030, none of the members’ plastic packaging waste will end up in nature.
Launched in January 2020, PARMS members, along with her affiliates and partners, formally signed a “Zero Waste to Nature Ambisyon 2030 (ZWTN 2030)” commitment. Years before the declaration, individual corporate members have been taking concrete action on addressing this problem including shifts to recyclable packaging and engaging in post-consumer waste recovery projects in partnership with local governments, NGOS, and community members. Most of the members have set targets that by 2025 or 2030, all their packaging will be recyclable, including snacks maker Mondelez Philippines.
Mondelez Philippines is the maker of Filipino’s favorite snacks products like eden Cheese, Cheez Whiz and toblerone. in line with the abovementioned goal to make 100 percent of its packaging recycle-ready, the company has recently pledged that by 2025, it will reduce its global use of virgin plastic for rigid packaging by 25 percent or reduce virgin plastic use in overall plastic packaging by 5 percent in 2025. this goes hand in hand with targeting to have 5 percent recycled content by weight across plastic packaging globally by the same period.
“More recently, we have launched our global Sustainable Futures platform,” shares Atty. Joseph Fabul, Country Manager for Corporate and Government Affairs of Mondelez Philippines. “through this we aim to incubate, finance, and build partnerships in the impact investment space through co-funded climate projects and a new social venture fund. We aim to partner with like-minded investors, increase our impact on the world and support self-sustaining projects. Locally we have started exploring this platform through our project with the Plastic Flamingo to collect and recycle 40,000 kilograms of plastic into lumber to turn into shelters.” the PARMS ZWTN 2030 Pledge is one of the ways the Company is tracking its performance versus its commitments.