APCO CEO Brooke Donnelly to leave position

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation’s (APCO) Brooke Donnelly has announced that she will be stepping down from her role as Chief Executive Officer. Citing a goal to meet new challenges in the future, she will leave the position at the end of July and will assist an interim CEO in the meantime.

Donnelly began her CEO tenure for APCO in 2017 and under her leadership the organisation saw its membership expand from 700 to 2200 members, with a growth in regional and global participants. Partnerships were established with Planet Ark, the Packaging Recyclability Evaluation Portal and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and the ANZPAC Plastics Pact was formed to deal with plastic pollution in the ANZ region.

APCO is responsible for various recycling-boosting campaigns such as the Australasian Recycling Label (ARL) that increases information for consumers and the National Packaging Targets campaign to substantially increase the recycling of packaging by 2025. Under Donnelly’s purview over 750 companies were engaged to join the ARL scheme.

The interim CEO of the organisation has yet to be named, and neither has Donnelly’s direct successor.

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