Mars partners with Sabic & Huhtamaki to support a circular economy

Mars has announced that it will incorporate recycled polypropylene plastic into the primary packaging for some of its popular pet food brands. For Mars, this marks an essential step in its efforts to reduce virgin plastics use across its packaging portfolio, to do its part to build a circular economy where no packaging becomes waste. Through its partnership with global packaging supplier Huhtamaki and petrochemical leader Sabic, Mars will use recycled plastic manufactured using an advanced recycling process for its pet food packs. Due to this process, the packs will not feel different from those made with traditional virgin plastic. Still, they will have the added benefits of including recycled material coming from previously used plastic products. The recycling approach used by Sabic to make its certified circular polypropylene is said to be one of the only solutions currently available that can take mixed, used plastic that is otherwise hard to recycle via traditional recycling routes and to transform them back into plastic suitable for new food-grade recycled packaging. Mars is piloting this in Europe…

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