This Government and Industry led program commenced in 1999 as the National Packaging Covenant. The Australian Government sought to encourage organisations to join the National Packaging Covenant and embrace the principles of product stewardship by developing innovative strategies to reduce packaging waste going to landfill and to contribute funds to develop improved kerbside recycling programs.
The aims were to include all organisations within the packaging supply chain to work together to reduce packaging waste at all points in the chain.
Panasonic became a signatory to the National Covenant in July 2000. As a signatory to the covenant, Panasonic has successfully diverted in excess of 79% of business waste from landfill and is always looking to improve this figure. PAU has submitted Reports and Action Plans since 2001.
On the 5th November 2009, the Environment Protection & Heritage Council (EPHC - Federal, State and Territory Governments) announced that the National Packaging Covenant would be renamed as the ‘Australian Packaging Covenant’ with different KPI’s and commence in July 2010.
Panasonic Australia continued as a signatory to the new Australian Packaging Covenant.
We submitted a 5 year plan covering July 2010 to June 2015.
Download the Panasonic APC Action Plan for 2010-2015 (PDF 0.4MB)