Tag: Prevented Ocean Plastic

Prevented Ocean Plastic is part of 1000 products

Stuart Mitchell

More than 1000 product lines have now been packaged using Prevented Ocean Plastic. Launched in 2020, Prevented Ocean Plastic works with coastal communities to build infrastructure in areas that need support to prevent the flow of global ocean plastic, collecting, sorting and recycling discarded material before it reaches the water. Five years on, the programme has grown from a sustainable supply chain thought leader into a global franchise model supporting businesses and brands across multiple sectors to meet recycled content, traceability and performance requirements at scale. The Prevented Ocean Plastic logo…

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World-First Food-Safe Recycled Polypropylene For European Markets

Stuart Mitchell

Recently Prevented Ocean Plastic, alongside major industry stakeholders, announces the first ever food-safe polypropylene (PP, one of the most commonly used yet least recycled plastics on the planet) recycled to the European standard (EU 2022/1616). PP is a part of everyday items like plastic cups, bottles and caps, and flexible films but despite its prevalence, has a global post-consumer recycling rate of just 1%, making it the second most common type of plastic polluting the ocean.  Working together Now, a global partnership representing all stages of the supply chain has…

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Berry’s Prevented Ocean Plastic Bottle™ Helps Tackle a Global Problem

Stuart Mitchell

One of the global sustainable packaging leaders Berry Global Group, Inc. has partnered with Brookfield Drinks for the launch of a new spring water range in a first-to-market bottle made completely from Prevented Ocean Plastic™ (POP). It is estimated, that every 500ml bottle of NEO WTR, made using discarded plastic that has been collected along coastlines at risk of ocean plastic pollution, stops the equivalent of approximately 1.7 plastic bottles entering the ocean.2 In addition to the POP bottle, both the label and cap are fully recyclable to offer a complete…

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Prevented Ocean Plastic Enters East Africa To Collect Thousands Of Tonnes Of Plastic From The Tanzanian Coast

Stuart Mitchell

Prevented Ocean Plastic™ East Africa has announced the opening of a new plastic collection centre in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in the United Republic of Tanzania. The new centre is the first Prevented Ocean Plastic™ centre in the region and is the first of its scale in Tanzania, which currently lacks adequate waste management to deal with its growing quantities of plastic waste. The centre has been built with the support of Alliance to End Plastic Waste. It is estimated that 29 kilotonnes of plastic waste enter the…

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Danone And Prevented Ocean Plastic Partner To Open First Major Plastic Collection Centre In Borneo, Indonesia

Stuart Mitchell

Prevented Ocean Plastic™ Southeast Asia announces the opening of its new recycled plastic aggregation centre in Samarinda, in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The centre is opening in partnership with consumer goods company Danone, through its Indonesian bottled water brand AQUA, and is part of the wider efforts of the internationally recognised Prevented Ocean Plastic™ programme. AQUA funded the centre’s construction and will be a major customer for the recycled plastic processed there. According to the National Waste Management Information System (SIPSN) in 2022, the…

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