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About 83.5% of Nestlé‘s plastic packaging globally was designed for recycling by the end of 2023 as the company pursue better packaging solutions and improved waste management infrastructure.
“We are making progress in reducing our overall packaging, making it more recyclable, and using renewable or recycled materials in our packaging,” said Antonia Wanner, Nestlé’s Head of ESG Strategy and Deployment. The design of, and material used in, our packaging are factors we can directly impact. But we also go beyond that and help build up waste management infrastructure, support harmonized regulation, and engage on the human rights of waste workers.”
For recyclable packaging materials to actually be recycled, a scale up of waste management infrastructure is needed. That’s why Nestlé works with local and national governments, industry alliances, civil society and consumers to develop and improve recycling infrastructure in the countries where it operates. It supports a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution and well-designed, effective mandatory Extended Producer Responsibility and Deposit Return Systems regulation.
Nestlé has partnered on 220 initiatives to develop well-functioning waste collection, sorting and recycling schemes in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and Latin America. In the UK, for example, Nestlé announced a GBP 7 million investment into a new recycling facility that processes flexible plastics. It is set to open in Durham later this year.
In Belgium, since January 1, 2023, all beverage capsules and pods, whether aluminum or plastic, can be collected in the new Blue Bag for recycling. This new recycling solution is the result of a partnership between Nespresso, Nestlé, JDE Peet’s and FostPlus.
In Brazil, Nestlé has partnered with the Recicleiros Cidades project. This initiative provides job training, promotes consumer recycling education and implements waste collection infrastructure in 11 Brazilian states. Waste collection partnership projects supported by Nestlé in Brazil today empower more than 8,000 recycling professionals.
Nestlé also uses recycled and renewable materials in its packaging, and at the end of 2023, 41.5% of its total packaging was made from recycled or renewable content. The company is using 50% recycled polyethylene (rPE) in the shrink film used across its European factories and is aiming to continuously increase the amount of food-grade recycled polypropylene (rPP) and rPE in many of its brands’ packaging, including Nesquik, KitKat and Purina.
Nestlé will continue to pursue its work to keep packaging materials in the circular economy, and out of the environment.
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