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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



Packaging Quiz

Our Sustainable Packaging/Recycling Strategy

In addition to reducing waste, recycling helps us reduce the amount of carbon emissions (see "Our Product Footprints") and water use (see "Our Water Footprint") tied to the packaging portion of our products’ footprints. In 2009, we allocated $17.1 million to achieve our Commitment 2020 goal in sustainable packaging and recycling, focusing on ways to:

Employee engagement is essential to increasing recycling rates at our facilities.
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  • Reduce the weight of our packaging without compromising its quality. Lightweighting helps us avoid the use of virgin PET, glass, and aluminum and decreases the amount of carbon emissions throughout the container’s lifecycle.
  • Reuse post-consumer material from our old packages to create new containers with increased recycled content.
  • Develop renewable resources, such as PlantBottle, for use in our packaging.
  • Recover and recycle increasing amounts of our packages by recycling efforts and education in our facilities, with our customers, and in our communities to achieve our goal of recovering the equivalent of 100 percent of the containers we produce in our territories.






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