Nestlé Works Toward 100% Recyclable Packaging Food giant Nestlé has announced that 97 percent of its product packaging in Italy is now recyclable — just a step away from its goal of 100 percent re- cyclable or reusable packaging by 2025. In Italy, the Swiss multinational achieved 100 percent recyclability for corrugated cardboard and glass, 98 percent recyclability for its paper pack- aging, 96 percent for rigid plastic, 92 percent for aluminum, and 77 percent for flexible plastic. Packaging Commitment The data comes from the 2022 edition of the Nestlé Sustainable Packaging Commitment: Road to 2025 report. Nestlé’s strategy consists of reducing the amount of packaging used and implementing new solutions to improve packaging quality and re- cycling systems. In achieving these goals, the company is working in four key strategic directions: research; reduction, reuse and recycling; collaboration; and information and education. In January, the group announced a €5 million in- vestment in the Italian venture capital Eureka! fund to boost research into innovative packaging solu- tions and improve the quality of collection and re- cycling processes. The first pilot project for the disposal of used plas- tic coffee capsules has been signed with Illycaffè and three companies that manage waste recycling in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Since 2018, Nestlé has been organizing ‘sustain- ability bars’ — training and refresher meetings for colleagues on sustainability-related projects devel- oped in Italy or abroad. To help consumers, in July 2021 Nestlé revamped Dove Lo Butto?, its digital platform for waste sep- aration, adding guidance on how to best interpret the minimum shelf life of products, thanks to its collaboration with Too Good To Go, as part of the Pact against Food Waste. A second project, called Km0 Cardoboard, aims to reduce the environmental impact of corrugat- ed cardboard packaging at the Buitoni factory in Benevento, where frozen pizzas are produced. Echaar Launches CI Flexo Press With Apex Sleeves Echaar Equipments introduced its first CI flexo printing press, the flexomaster HR-500, equipped with Apex GTT 2.0 anilox sleeves.
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