David Carter (above) has been appointed interim CEO of the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA) following last month’s departure of Stan Moore.
NPCIA, the legal entity contracted to deliver the Australian Packaging Covenant (APC), a sustainable packaging initiative, said Carter would step into the position as recruitment commences to fill the role on an ongoing basis.
Carter remains the CEO and president of the Packaging Council of Australia and offered to assist the NPCIA until a new CEO was found. As an existing member of the NPCIA committee, Carter’s appointment allows the NPCIA to continue negotiations with state and federal government bodies on future Covenant arrangements, and oversee the covenant’s activities in the transitional period.
The NPCIA is currently finalising a new APC for approval by environment ministers in December 2015, with implementation scheduled from July 2016.
In a statement announcing the move, the NPCIA said it was seeking to make the future Covenant ‘more strategic, targeted and with improved governance and accountability’:
The NPCIA Committee is also working to ensure that a future Covenant, which while it remains a co-regulatory arrangement, delivers strengthened member services and capacity building to assist signatories reduce the environmental impact of their packaging waste. The NPCIA is in the early stages of a member survey to gather views on future activities that would help signatories reduce the environmental impact of their packaging and how to make the action plan/ reporting framework more effective and streamlined; the future fee structure; and the future arrangements for the product stewardship organisation (to replace the NPCIA) to deliver the services under the Covenant agreement.
Stan Moore, who had been critical of the federal government’s commitment to the APC, left the organization last month after four years in the job.