MOSCOW (MRC) -- Buxton Natural Mineral Water, headquartered in the United Kingdom, has announced that its whole range of water bottles will be made from 100 percent recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) by 2021, said Recyclingtoday.
Buxton is a part of the Nestle Waters group. Buxton’s bottles are already 100 percent recyclable and will remain 100 percent recyclable when the company makes this transition, Nestle Waters reports in a news release.
The company’s 75-centiliter and 1-liter bottles made from 100 percent rPET were launched in November as well and the rest of the range, currently made with a minimum of 20 percent recycled plastic, will follow by the end of 2021. According to a news release from Nestle Waters, this change is the result of Nestle Waters’ longstanding commitment to sustainability, to reduce its impact on the environment and to promote a circular economy.
“We are incredibly excited to be able to put our commitments to sustainability into practice,” says Michel Beneventi, business executive officer for Nestle Waters U.K. “The high-quality recycled material retains the same all-important properties as PET, resulting in a product that is lightweight, durable, resilient and still 100 percent recyclable. We would have liked to have made all our Buxton bottles from recycled material much sooner, but there are many challenges to achieving this. The material we use needs to be high-quality food grade.
“The availability of a domestic U.K. supply of this material is still relatively limited,” Beneventi continues. “Today, the rPET used for our Buxton bottles has to be sourced outside of the U.K., as we don’t currently have the infrastructure available at scale in this country to create volumes needed. We would love to be able to produce the bottles for our British water in the U.K. Therefore, we’re working with industry partners, nongovernmental organizations and government to improve the national recycling rate, supporting the U.K.-wide deposit return scheme and engaging with consumers about their recycling to help make a circular economy for plastics a reality.”
This year, Nestle released its vision that none of its product packaging, including plastics, should end up in a landfill or as litter and that all 100 percent of its packaging will be recyclable or reusable by 2025. Buxton is ahead of this target with this announcement, Nestle Waters reports in a news release.
“As a packaged goods company, we have a hugely important role to play in helping to address the amount of plastic produced in our industry and a collective responsibility to help shape a more sustainable future,” says Anna Turrell, head of sustainability for Nestle Waters UK. “We will continue to push the boundaries to address this challenge.”
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PET consumption dropped in September 2019 by 10% year on year, totalling 58,210 tonnes. Overall, 551,320 tonnes of PET was processed in Russia in the first nine months of 2019, up 9% year on year.
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