Unilever announced a new commitment to 'reduce plastic' by 2025

Unilever has issued a new "plastic reduction" statement to promote the development of circular economy of plastic products. On October 7, Unilever (Unilever), the European consumer goods giant, announced a new "plastic reduction" statement in the hope of reducing the total amount of plastic packaging used by its brands and promoting the development of circular economy of plastic products. At present, the total amount of plastic packaging used by Unilever is about 700,000 metric tons per year. In a statement, the Group said that the absolute use of plastic packaging would be reduced by more than 100,000 metric tons through recycled plastic packaging and distribution mode

Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever, said that although plastic packaging has brought great convenience to people's lives, it has caused great environmental impact. Influence. In the future, the group will take corresponding measures for all links of recycling plastic, reduce the application of plastic packaging by introducing innovative environmental protection raw materials to produce packaging, and create a new distribution mode of recycling packaging. Ellen MacArthur, founder of Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a British environmental charity, said that reducing unnecessary plastic products in people's lives, promoting material innovation, ensuring the sustainability of plastic products, and establishing a sustainable closed-loop ecosystem of plastic packaging have been the goals of the organization. Unilever's statement is an important step in building a recycling plastic economy system, and they strongly support the group's decision.

Unilever has always been very concerned about environmental issues. Since the launch of "Less, Better, No" sustainable plastic packaging strategy in 2017, the Group has been exploring new business models and strengthening investment in R&D institutions. Through Less Plastic project, Unilever launched mobile vending machines for laundry liquid filling in Southeast Asia and opened product filling stations in cooperation with universities and stores, which increased the reuse of plastic packaging. In addition, they have also innovated the dyes used in plastic packaging, so that black plastic packaging can be screened out by machines and reused. In No Plastic Program, Unilever launched products such as solid shampoo, cardboard packaging antiperspirant and bamboo wire toothbrush, which reduced the use of plastic packaging in commodities. They also cooperated with Loop, a shopping platform for circular consumer goods, to increase the use of commodity packaging through packaging and distribution mode, and greatly reduce the waste of resources.

Luxurious Zhi. For details, the founder of Loop, a recycling consumption platform, talked about how to solve the environmental impact of disposable packaging from the root.

Unilever's previous proposal that "plastic packaging of all brands under Unilever Group in 2025 will be recyclable, reusable, degradable and recyclable in packaging." The plastic reduction target of increasing the content of material to more than 25% is also expected to be achieved on schedule.

In April this year, Luxury Chronicle reported the announcement of Unilever's recycling plan for plastic packaging in North America.