Tag: recycling

The new romaine hearts bag will be made up of 30 percent post consumer recycled plastic, reducing the need for virgin plastic production.

At full capacity, the facility will recycle nearly 90 million pounds of plastic waste per year, enough to encircle the globe in pallet wrap more than 135 times.

Pactiv Evergreen Inc. a leading manufacturer of fresh food and beverage packaging in North America, and ExxonMobil, a leader in advanced recycling technology, are teaming up to provide certified-circular packaging solutions to major food brands and foodservice providers.

The Kroger Co. today announced its innovative recycling program has hit a major milestone, recycling more than one million pieces of Our Brands flexible plastic product packaging. The company shared it is offering customers more items with upcycled ingredients with the addition of two new Simple Truth products to advance sustainability.

Ayco Farms, headquartered in Pompano Beach Fl, is one of the top offshore Melon grower, importer and distributor from Central America, and Mexico.

Rubicon Technologies, Inc. (“Rubicon” or the “Company”), a leading digital marketplace for waste and recycling and provider of innovative software-based products for businesses and governments worldwide, today announced that it has signed an extended, three-year agreement with Sweetgreen, Inc. (“sweetgreen”), the mission-driven restaurant brand serving healthy food at scale, to continue to help expand sweetgreen’s waste diversion efforts, and provide enhanced account management as the company’s lead partner for waste, recycling, and composting services.

Today, WM and Dow announced the launch of a bold new collaboration to improve residential recycling for hard-to-recycle plastic films by allowing consumers in select markets to recycle these materials directly in their curbside recycling.

In a column on compostable packaging in the produce industry last week, I suggested that in urban settings, even compostable packaging is likely to end up in landfill.

I try to be conscientious with recycling (I even take the wire hangers back to the dry cleaner). But I often ask myself, “Is this anything more than a sop to my conscience?” That is, is it doing any good?

G&R Farms is proud to announce their continued commitment to sustainability with their participation in the How2Recycle program.