WRAP Reveals 55 Founding Members Joining the New UK Packaging Pact Ahead of 2026 Launch

WRAP declares 55 founding organisations linking UK Packaging Pact ahead of 2026 presentation

Household names such as ASDA, Arla, Haleon, Lidl, Ocado Retail, Tesco, Lidl GB, and Yeo Valley, KP Snacks, Kraft Heinz have signed up, along with key waste handling companies Biffa, SUEZ Recycling Recovery UK and Veolia. On the list also are packing companies like DS Smith, Faerch, Robinsons Packaging, KM Packaging, Mura Technology and Xampla.

The arrangement is planned to help convert how packaging is planned, utilized, and improved to decrease waste and releases, better guard nature and put citizens requirements at the heart of packaging choices. The inheritor to the UK Plastics Pact, the new volunteer agreement expands the focus to all resources commonly utilized in packaging, and the variety of segments intricate in the new programme.

Organisations producing goods from pet products, food & beverages, beauty care, and household goods can join and change packaging to optimise its usage, enlarge reusability and completely incorporate packaging into the circular economy.

Catherine David, chief executive, WRAP, expressed:

“Association works and it’s carrying real shift. Unrecyclable black plastic is absent, recycling is growing, and needless packaging is endangered. But the measure of the challenge demands more. Plastic pollution remnants a worldwide catastrophe, and with the disappointment to safe a worldwide treaty, the requirement for bold, complete action has never been superior. We must hasten the step alteration to circular existing, driving reuse, undertaking plastic film, and permitting the influence of upcoming recycling modifications. This is cooperative action at its most determined and important, and WRAP is proud to main the charge in the direction of an actually circular future.”

Mary Creagh, Circular Economy Minister, expressed:

“Government and trades must confirm packaging is utilized time and time again. Our new protracted producer accountability scheme will turbocharge this change to more sustainable packing. I pay compliment to the 55 world-leading corporations who have signed up to the UK Packaging Pact and promised to go further and faster in transporting greener packaging.”

Jeremy Blake, chief executive, PackUK, expressed:

“PackUK is pleased to help the UK Packaging Pact. This determined initiative shows the collaborative method we require to influence real, lasting change. No single organisation can solve the packing challenge alone but by pooling proficiency and insights across business and government, we can break down the fences and hasten the change to truly circular packaging at scale.”