pladis to ditch all black plastic from its UK&I portfolio Aligned to its long-term sustainability targets, the McVitie’s maker is adopting a collection of new initiatives, including the total removal of non-recyclable black plastic from its portfolio.
The company said it had ceased production using black plastic at its factories in December 2020, and is focused on jettisoning it entirely from its on-shelf offerings sold in the UK by June 2021.
According to the UK biscuit giant, this will prevent 80 million plastic trays from going to landfill every year.
pladis has also pledged to eliminate the use of all PVDC film, cited by the UK Plastics Pact as a ‘problematic plastic’. To date, the company has removed 35% of PVDC film from its portfolio, with a pledge to reach the 100% target by June.
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Nestlé reduces plastic from cereal packaging and rolls out paper Smarties packs worldwide
Well-known cereal brands including Cheerios, Shreddies and Shredded Wheat are set to reduce the amount of plastic used in packaging by more than 600 tonnes annually, while Nestlé s Smarties brand is also switching to recyclable paper packaging worldwide.
Plans are also in place for the packaging to be rolled out across other brands next year
The breakfast cereal brands are manufactured by Cereal Partners – a joint venture between Nestlé and General Mills – and are all set to reduce the amount of plastic used in packaging by up to 15% compared to current levels.
By Ian Quinn2021-01-26T17:06:00+00:00
Having just published his new book ‘The Green Grocer’, Iceland MD Richard Walker was no doubt hoping for a better result than the retailer coming bottom of the pile in Greenpeace’s latest plastic reduction league table.
Walker’s new tome, billed as “one man’s manifesto for corporate activism’, promises to help other retailers become greener. The back-cover blurb even cites reducing single-use plastic as one of the ways Iceland is “effecting real change” in the supermarket sector. And with good reason. Iceland has slashed levels of own brand plastic by a third since 2017, and has been one of the retailers driving more transparent reporting on plastic and pioneering trials of deposit return schemes.