French food and beverage giant Danone announced that its high-end bottled water brand Evian will use 100% recycled PET bottles by 2025. At present, the brand's mineral water bottles contain an average of 25% recyclable ingredients. In addition, Danone will carry out a series of educational and promotional activities aimed at promoting PET recycling, and will participate in a project to protect marine ecology, helping to reduce and ultimately eliminate floating plastics in the ocean.
At the same time, Coca Cola has also set new recycling targets, including increasing the use of recyclable materials in its packaging to 50% or even higher; By 2030, achieve 100% recycling and reuse of beverage bottles and cans. Big brands are taking action for the sustainable development of humanity and the well-being of future generations. More and more companies are actively practicing their corporate social responsibility and setting medium - and long-term recycling goals and timelines. According to statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's packaging industry had an annual output value of over 300 billion US dollars in 2016, making it the second largest packaging market in the world.
The food and beverage industry is a major user of packaging, and any environmentally friendly actions in this industry have a ripple effect. Environmental protection is not the responsibility of individual enterprises, but requires the joint efforts of all sectors of society. As a promoter of waste resource recycling, Tao Lang believes that economic and environmental development complement each other. Promoting the recycling and utilization of food and beverage packaging materials can not only reduce the total amount of packaging materials buried and burned, protect the environment we rely on for survival, but also promote the healthy development of human economic activities.
As more and more food and beverage companies increase the use of recycled and recyclable materials, the demand for recycled materials will significantly increase; Therefore, improving the recycling rate and ensuring the quality and purity of recycled materials will become the dominant topics in the future recycling market.