Global Tourism Plastics Initiative Takes on One of the Worst Polluters

The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative is ground-breaking and ambitious in its goals. It aims to reduce the amount of plastic pollution caused by the tourism sector. To achieve this vision, tourism companies and destinations will be required to make a set of concrete and actionable commitments by 2025, including to: 

• Eliminate problematic or unnecessary plastic packaging and items by 2025; 
• Take action to move from single-use to reuse models or reusable alternatives by 2025; 
• Engage the value chain to move towards 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable; 
• Take action to increase the amount of recycled content across all plastic packaging and items used; 
• Commit to collaborate and invest to increase the recycling and composting rates for plastics; 
• Report publicly and annually on progress made towards these targets.

Read the full press release here.