AUSTRALIA | Pact Group and ALDI have rolled out one of Australia’s largest recycled household plastic packaging initiatives.
The rollout will use almost 800 tonnes of locally recycled plastic resin annually, turning household plastic waste from kerbside recycling bins into new packaging for household products Australians use every day.
Plastic collected through kerbside recycling bins, including empty milk, laundry, shampoo and detergent bottles, is processed into recycled resin at the Pact-operated Circular Plastics Australia recycling facility in Melbourne before being manufactured into new laundry and cleaning product bottles for ALDI.
Seven of ALDI’s own-brand laundry range bottles and containers are now made with up to 50 percent locally produced recycled plastic resin, double their current recycled content levels. Three cleaning product bottles have also increased their recycled content to up to 50 percent.
The laundry bottles and containers are manufactured at Pact’s packaging facilities, while ALDI’s laundry and cleaning liquids are produced and filled at Pact’s Contract Manufacturing facility before being distributed to ALDI stores nationwide.
A key feature of the rollout is that it has been delivered in a commercially neutral way. Pact and ALDI worked together to utilise coloured resin to offset the additional costs of recycled content.
Pact and ALDI have also agreed to renew a three-year strategic partnership to focus on packaging design and affordable sustainable packaging opportunities for the retailer’s food and household products.
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