From early December, Torbay’s 60,000 households will be able to recycle mixed plastics, adding them to their weekly combined kerbside collection to be sorted in transit. Materials that can now be included which previously went to landfill include margarine and ice cream tubs and noodle pots.
Louis Lindenberg, global packaging sustainability director at Unilever, said: “Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at Unilever. In the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan, we made a global commitment to halve our environmental impact by 2020 across the life cycle of our products, incorporating a pledge to increase recycling in countries all around the world, including the UK.
“This project with Torbay Council is a great example of our commitment in action and our way of helping consumers to do their part for the environment.”
The move by Unilever to work with Torbay Council in this pilot project – the first time it has worked with a council on a mixed plastics recycling scheme – has been commended by WRAP (Waste and Resource Action Programme).
Source: Unilever
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