Nine companies across the hospitality, tourism and food and beverage industries in Singapore have signed a pact to ensure no more new plastic is introduced to the environment, under a new initiative introduced by World Wide Fund for Nature Singapore. Called PACT: a Plastic ACTion commitment, the initiative has committed well-known companies SaladStop!, Udders, AccorHotels Group, Hilton Singapore, Wildlife Reserves Singapore and many more to a 100 percent phase-out of all unrecyclable single-use plastic and a transition to reusable or recyclable product and packaging by 2020. According to Lotika Mehta, campaigns manager at WWF Singapore, PACT aims to “disrupt the existing linear system of excessive and wasteful consumption,” and replace it with a circular economy that effectively recovers and recycles plastic waste. More companies are expected to sign PACT this year, following a roundtable held by WWF in December that brought together over 40 companies across the retail, hospitality, F&B and manufacturing sectors.

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