Packaging in 2025 | Nestlé

In a series of interviews, Packaging News hears from brands and associations about their expectations for the packaging sector next year.

At Nestlé, we are committed to being a responsible corporate citizen and taking bold action to address the urgent issue of packaging waste.

We also recognise the need to address the environmental impact of packaging waste, particularly plastics.

As we look towards 2025, we know it will be a pivotal year for Nestlé and our industry’s approach to packaging sustainability.

From January, we will see the implementation of the first phase of Extended Producer Responsibility for packaging (pEPR). For the first time, producers like Nestlé will be re-sponsible for paying the full net costs of managing the packaging they place on the market at end of life.

We have spent the last three years engaging closely with Government, industry peers and trade associations to shape the UK pEPR model, and we remain fully supportive of a well-designed and well-functioning EPR system that meets its aims and objectives: to ensure more packaging is designed to be recyclable, stimulate the development of re-cycling infrastructure and ensure greater access to recycled content that can be incor-porated into our packaging.

It remains important that food producers, whose understanding of the manufacturing process and the requirements of packaging. is unparalleled, and who will bear the costs of EPR, are at the centre of this system, drawing on the experience of well-performing schemes in other countries which are producer-led.

We know the next year is going to be a significant one for our industry, and as a major food and drink producer on a journey to improve its packaging sustainability but we know we can’t do it alone.

Our message to the sector in 2025 and beyond is simple: let’s keep working together on these shared challenges to find common solutions that can help all of us to be part of the transition.