To prevent \"small packaging\" from accumulating in the ocean, Unilever is piloting a new recycling technology. In recent years, the \"small packaging economy\" has become increasingly popular, but it can be a heavy burden on the environment. The Independent reports that Unilever, a major consumer goods manufacturer, has developed a new recycling technology to achieve sustainable packaging, potentially preventing packaging from ending up in the ocean or landfills. \"Billions of packaging bags are used and then discarded, ending up in landfills or the ocean. We want to open up this technology and scale it up with industry partners so that others, including competitors, can use it,\" said David Blanchard, Unilever's Chief Research Officer. Unilever sells tens of billions of products and single-use packaging bags annually, including cosmetics and food, primarily in developing and emerging markets. The company stated that it has developed a new recycling technology to recycle these packaging bags. This recycling system, called \"CreaSolv,\" can extract the plastic from the packaging bags for use in new product packaging, achieving a circular economy. This is part of Unilever's 2025 commitment to make all its plastic packaging fully recyclable, reusable, or biodegradable. Unilever will first establish a pilot plant in Indonesia to observe the commercial viability of the new technology. Indonesia generates 64 million tons of waste annually, of which 1.3 million tons end up in the ocean. Andreas M\u00e4urer, head of the plastics recycling department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, which is collaborating with Unilever on the technology, said, \"In this pilot plant, we will, for the first time, recover high-value polymers from used multi-layer consumer packaging bags.\" The Allen MacArthur Foundation has predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean, forcing many major brands to re-evaluate their plastic packaging policies. Co-op supermarkets announced it will introduce new recyclable pizza packaging to reduce waste. Last November, the company announced it would achieve 80% packaging recyclability by 2020. In February of this year, Johnson & Johnson stopped selling plastic cotton swabs, a common type of waste found on British beaches, in half of its markets, replacing them with paper sticks. Source: Environmental Information Centre (2017-05-18)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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