Nestlé Redesigns Confectionery Sharing Bags To Reduce Plastic Use
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Nestlé UK and Ireland has redesigned its candy sharing bags to use less plastic packaging.
Many of the company’s treats—including Milkybar, Aero Bubbles, Munchies, Rolo, Yorkie, and Rowntree’s Randoms, will be housed in narrower pouches. This move allows Nestle to save nearly one million square meters of packaging and remove at least 83 tons of virgin plastic from its supply chain.
“Nestlé is working hard to reduce its use of virgin plastic by one-third by 2025. Removing 15% of the packaging from our sharing bags is an important step towards this goal,” said Nestle confectionery sustainability head Cheryl Allen said. “We can now pack more sharing bags at a time, which means fewer lorries are needed to transport them. In total, we will be able to take the equivalent of 331 lorries off UK roads every year, saving 71,472 road miles and 130 tons of CO₂ emissions.”
Nestlé is also committed to recycling plastic wrappers that are not currently collected at kerbsides. The company partnered with TerraCycle, a program for recycling confectionary packaging, to allow consumers to recycle them. It aims to make its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.
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[via TrendHunter, cover image via Nestlé]
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