APCO CEO to step down in November

Satarupa Bhowmik

Tue, July 7, 2026 astatine 5:45 AM CDT 1 min read

Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) CEO Chris Foley is acceptable to measurement down astatine the extremity of November 2026 aft 4 years astatine the helm of the nonprofit body.

APCO's committee has begun a hunt for a caller CEO to pb the organisation's 2030 Strategic Plan and usher it done strategy alteration and regulatory reform. The recruitment process volition screen some section and planetary markets.

Foley volition stay successful the relation during the transition, continuing to pb APCO's enactment connected regulatory betterment portion main operating serviceman Tom Key volition oversee operational delivery.

According to APCO, Foley's tenure saw information successful the Australian Packaging Covenant summation from 900 organisations successful 2018 to much than 2500.

The Australasian Recycling Label programme besides grew to screen much than 500,000 products.

During his clip arsenic CEO, APCO developed its 2030 Strategic Plan, including an industry-designed exemplary for a co-regulatory extended shaper work (EPR) strategy that is present earlier governments.

APCO seat Sam Andersen said: "The committee is managing this modulation deliberately, with settled enactment arrangements done to the assignment of our adjacent CEO."

Foley said helium would proceed moving with APCO members and authorities successful the coming months to enactment regulatory betterment for EPR successful Australia.

He noted: "I americium moving intimately with the Board to guarantee a creaseless transition, and to guarantee APCO continues to supply the fundamentals needed to enactment an effectual caller regulatory environment."

APCO is focused connected advancing a circular system for packaging successful Australia, moving with government, manufacture and partners crossed the packaging worth chain.

"APCO CEO to measurement down successful November" was primitively created and published by Packaging Gateway, a GlobalData owned brand.