Tag: Plastic Rings

AB InBev Eliminates Plastic Rings in UK

Stuart Mitchell

AB InBev has reached another exciting circular packaging milestone – our entire portfolio of iconic beers from Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I is now plastic-ring free.  That means cans of Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois and Beck’s in the UK will now be packaged with alternatives like fully recyclable wraps and the KeelClip™, a new technology which uses recyclable paperboard to create a lighter weight pack. Along with decreasing our usage of plastic shrink wrap, we will be eliminating  850 tonnes of plastic waste, the equivalent weight of 67 double decker buses, every year.   This change takes our company one step closer to achieving our 2025 Sustainability Goal of…

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Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I To Eliminate Plastic Rings From All Products By End Of 2020

Stuart Mitchell

Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I has announced a multi-million pound investment in new technology, allowing it to eliminate plastic rings from can packaging across its entire UK-produced beer range by the end of 2020. This £6.3 million investment will enable Budweiser Brewing Group to eliminate a total of 850 tonnes of plastic each year – the equivalent weight of 425 black cabs, 67 double decker buses or 10 blue whales. This total will include removing 250 tonnes of plastic rings previously used to hold packs of beer cans together (comparable to…

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