Sustainable Packaging/Recycling Overview

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Sustainable Packaging/Recycling Overview Understanding Our Packaging Challenges Our Sustainable Packaging/Recycling Strategy Reducing Our Packaging Reusing Materials and Increasing Recycled Content Developing Renewable Resources Recycling at Our Facilities Effective Recovery and Consumer Recycling Partnerships and Public Policy

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Sustainable Packaging/
Recycling Overview

Understanding Our Packaging Challenges

Our Sustainable Packaging/
Recycling Strategy

Reducing Our Packaging

Reusing Materials and Increasing Recycled Content

Developing Renewable Resources

Recycling at Our Facilities

Effective Recovery and Consumer Recycling

Partnerships and Public Policy

Sustainable Packaging/Recycling Overview

Goal: Reduce the impact of our packaging; maximize our use of renewable, reusable, and recyclable resources; and recover the equivalent of 100 percent of our packaging


	Cans and bottles are crushed and baled before going to the processing facility. – click IMAGE to enlarge –

Sustainable Packaging/Recycling Highlights:

Avoided the use of an estimated 35,500 metric tons of packaging materials through lightweighting
Introduced PlantBottle, a fully recyclable PET bottle made from a blend of petroleum-based materials and up to 30 percent plant-based materials
Achieved an average of 92 percent waste recycling at our North American facilities and more than 98 percent at our European facilities
Collected more than 160,000 metric tons of aluminum and PET, an increase of more than 27 percent

Our bottles and cans play a vital role in delivering our beverages safely and conveniently to our customers and consumers. After the beverage has been enjoyed, the container can be repurposed by recycling it into a new container or into entirely new products such as T-shirts or carpet fibers.

Even though nearly all of the aluminum, plastic, and glass we use in our packaging can be reused and recycled, this area remains our most visible and high-profile environmental impact, as often the empty container is discarded. At CCE, we are working to prevent recyclables from entering landfills and will continue to close the recycling gap, so that by 2020 we are recovering and repurposing the equivalent of 100 percent of the packaging we use.

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