Rachel’s, the UK’s organic dairy brand, is “set to become the first ever yogurt producer to use of recycled plastic in their yogurt pots”. Recently voted the UK’s Greenest dairy brand in an independent YouGov study, the company has switched to PET using 60 per cent recycled PET known as r-PET.
Rachel’s plastic inner pot was previously made of polystyrene (PS).
Steve Clarke, Rachel’s md explains: “Using recycled plastic saves energy and so reduces the carbon footprint of our pot. It also reduces consumption of finite oil resources, from which new plastic is made. By making the switch to r-PET we will save up to 210 tonnes of plastic per year. Better still, we are using materials that might otherwise end up in landfill.”
Every 1 tonne of r-PET used saves approx 1.5 tonnes of Carbon and by using 60 per cent r-PET the carbon footprint of the new pots is reduced by approx 30 per cent. The new inner pot and over-cap are also fully recyclable.
