ROADMAP TO 2025

The 'Roadmap to 2025' establishes a collaborative framework for national government, businesses, and waste sectors in South Africa to eliminate problematic plastics and increase recycling rates. It defines four primary targets: eliminating unnecessary plastic packaging, ensuring 100% of packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable, achieving a 70% effective recycling rate for plastic packaging, and reaching an average of 30% recycled content across all plastic packaging. The roadmap details key activities, such as developing 'design for recycling' guidance, implementing a mandatory Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system, and integrating the informal waste sector into the formal economy.

• The SA Plastics Pact has established four primary targets to be achieved by 2025: eliminating problematic or unnecessary plastic packaging, ensuring 100% of plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable, effectively recycling 70% of plastic packaging, and achieving an average of 30% recycled content across all plastic packaging.
• The transition to a circular economy for plastics in South Africa relies on the evolution of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system from a voluntary, industry-led model to a mandatory, industry-led system under the guidance of the Department of Environment, Forestry, Fisheries and the (DEFF).
• A core objective of the roadmap is the integration of the formal and informal waste sectors to protect informal livelihoods and improve the quality of recyclables collection and sorting.
• The roadmap emphasizes the need for 'design for recycling' guidelines and the adoption of On Pack Recycling Labels (OPRLs) to ensure packaging is compatible with the South African context and understandable for consumers.
• To stimulate demand for recycled plastics and decouple from finite feedstocks, the pact aims to develop a Recycled Content Strategy and influence public procurement guidelines.
• The roadmap identifies the need to address problematic materials that cannot currently be eliminated or replaced, such as certain PVC formats and flexible multi-layers, through local research and the localization of international technology.

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@techreport{greencapendroadmap, author = {{GreenCape}}, title = {{ROADMAP TO 2025}}, institution = {GreenCape}, url = {https://greencape.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ROADMAP_5_10_20-3.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }