PACKAGING & CIRCULAR ECONOMYA CONTINUOUS JOURNEY TO REDUCE ITS ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINTS

Sinta KaniawatiSustainability Business Team – Unilever Indonesia , Aug 2017

What is packaging?Packaging is the material we use to contain, protect, handle, deliver and present goods.

3 BROAD FUNCTIONS:

➢ Primary packaging➢ Secondary packaging➢ Tertiary packaging

MATERIALS

➢ Paper and Board➢ Plastic➢ Glass➢Metals➢Others (mixed materials)

What IS SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING?

> Sustainable packaging could be considered

to be the packaging design with the lowest environmental impact that provides the required functionality.

> It is important that analysis of the sustainability of packaging takes into account

social, environmental and economic considerations across the whole lifecycle of the product that it contains to avoid misleading conclusions.

Understanding our value chain

Unilever Sustainable Growth Strategy

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

➢ Unilever’s long term growth and success in the business goes hand in hand with ensuring a sustainable future for the planet and its people.

Unilever Sustainable Living Plan

Unilever Sustainable Living Plan

Our milestones in the journey to reduce environmental footprint:

• GREEN AND CLEAN programme to tackle household waste issue

• TRASHION programme to support a group of women who create fashion items from Unilever’s product waste

• 1,630 WASTE BANKS in 17 cities that have collected up to 4.363 ton of inorganic waste

• ZERO WASTE TO LANDFILL achieved across manufacturing operations and Head Office

• PRAISE (Packaging and Recycling Alliance for Indonesia Sustainable Environment) alliance with 6 companies, supported by KLHK RI

HOW WE MOVE?INCREASE POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT

DOUBLE THE BUSINESS

REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL

FOOTPRINT

Our post consumer collection program

Upstream Middle stream downstream

• Awareness building,• Community

Engagement,• Waste Bank,• Retailer Engagement

Program

• Collaboration with Waste Collectors

• Waste recycler,• City Level Waste Bank

• Technology Intervention

SO We’VE committed to ensuring that all of our plastic packaging is fully reusable,

recyclable or compostable by 2025

Our plastic packaging plays a critical role in making our products appealing, safe and enjoyable for our consumers

TAKE MAKEUSE /

CONSUMEDISPOSE

LINEAR ECONOMY MODEL

MOVING TOWARDS CIRCULAR ECONOMY MODEL

MOVING

DISPOSAL

USE

DISTRIBUTION

MANUFACTURE

FLEXIBLE PACK CONVERSION

FEEDSTOCK

Recylcing

HOW TO ACHIEVE?

CONSUMER

RECYCLER

NGO

MEDIA

PRODUCER

RETAILER

We need to work in partnership with ALL stakeholders to support the development and scaling up of collection TO ACHIEVE ZERO

WASTE TO NATURE

PLASTIC PACKAGING MANAGEMENT

G O V E R N M E N TG O V E R N M E N T

Collaboration through

About PRAISE

• PRAISE is the “Packaging & Recycling Alliance for Indonesia Sustainable Environment”

• We are an alliance to support the development of sustainable and integrated packaging waste management solutions in Indonesia

• We were formerly established as the ‘Coalition for Sustainable Packaging’

• Six companies initiated PRAISE as founding members

Vision & Mission

Vision

• To establish best practices which support the development of sustainable

• packaging waste management solutions in Indonesia

Mission

1. Create awareness of Extended Stakeholder Responsibility (ESR) as a multi-stakeholder integrated approach to sustainable waste management in line with the concept of a Circular Economy

2. Strengthen capacity of members through research, education and collaboration

3. Enlist participation of all stakeholders in government, private sector andpublic to actively take part in reducing impacts of packaging waste on the environment

Our activities to date

Waste composition study at Bantar Gebang with UI & IBL, 2010 - 2011

Actively involved in discussion forum with MoEF, MoI on Packaging Waste Management

Series of workshop which result in Recommendation for National Policy & Strategy on Waste Management

Field Study to Thailand to TIPMSE, Wongpanit & Waste Picker community

Clean Up Act & Stakeholder Dialog on Waste Management, on the National Waste Day, Feb 2017

Study with UI on the Economic Impact if Plastic Excise is implemented

Our activities to date

Waste composition study at Bantar Gebang with UI & IBL, 2010 - 2011

Actively involved in discussion forum with MoEF, MoI on Packaging Waste Management

Series of workshop which result in Recommendation for National Policy & Strategy on Waste Management

Field Study to Thailand to TIPMSE, Wongpanit & Waste Picker community

Clean Up Act & Stakeholder Dialog on Waste Management, on the National Waste Day, Feb 2017

Study with UI on the Economic Impact if Plastic Excise is implemented

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