Thinking Inside the Box

By making small but mighty influential changes to its packaging, Pristine is doing its part to help Australia meet its National Packaging Targets.

EVEN SMALL CHANGES to packaging that perhaps aren’t necessarily thought of as potential game changers can make a big sustainable impact. Enter Pristine, a provider of quality washroom solutions, and a brand that has just introduced tissue boxes containing no plastic collar – that little strip of plastic that lines the opening of tissue boxes.

Humble, but here’s the fact: this change will result in approximately 1200kg of plastic being eliminated from tissue boxes across Australia and New Zealand each year. With only 18% of all plastic packaging in Australia being recycled for future use and 41% of recyclable plastic sent to landfill in New

Action Timeline

WA

• Foam hot and cold beverage cups

• Fragmentable plastics

• Plastic-stemmed cotton buds

• Foam meat and fish trays

• Microbeads

• Foam loose-fill consumer packaging

New Zealand

• Plastic tableware

• Plastic bowls without lids

• Plastic straws

Zealand, this is a significant sustainable shift and a laudable example of making every possible solution count. By taking proactive steps to reduce plastic waste, Pristine continues in its drive to develop products that meet Bunzl’s quality and sustainability goals.

Further single-use plastic bans continue to be implemented across Australia and New Zealand. Here’s a snapshot of what these bans look like.

• Transition towards fully home compostable plastic produce labels and stickers

SA

• Plastic-stemmed cotton buds

• Plastic plates

• Plastic bowls

• Plastic pizza savers

QLD

• Plastic-stemmed cotton buds

• Microbeads

• Loose-fill consumer packaging

• Heavy-weight plastic bags