I am almost ready to launch a new range of consumer products and I have been obsessed with containing them in recycled content plastic bottles. It seems crazy not to be using recycled plastic when the contents are not for consumption...and even more crazy that I cant find any suppliers of such bottles in Australia. BUT I have just found a company in the USA who can do up to 100% recycled HDPE content in opaque white bottles - and if I have my way it will start a similar trend down under.
Another curious observation about dealing with the packaging industry - many of the sales people seem to be repeating a tired and generally incorrect line: that bottles cannot be recycled if they have paper labels on them. Bizarre if you just stop to think that in order to melt the plastic into reusable pellets it needs to be heated to way higher than the burn temperture of plastic.....
Anyhoo on my internet trawling to seek out kindred green bottle companies I came across Mike Biddle, "The Garbage Man" who has cut across the confusion by using mining industry high tech to efficiently sort and recycle plastic waste and "fluff". Check out his TED talk here:
Another curious observation about dealing with the packaging industry - many of the sales people seem to be repeating a tired and generally incorrect line: that bottles cannot be recycled if they have paper labels on them. Bizarre if you just stop to think that in order to melt the plastic into reusable pellets it needs to be heated to way higher than the burn temperture of plastic.....
Anyhoo on my internet trawling to seek out kindred green bottle companies I came across Mike Biddle, "The Garbage Man" who has cut across the confusion by using mining industry high tech to efficiently sort and recycle plastic waste and "fluff". Check out his TED talk here:
Incidentally we are currently redesigning HOG for another plastic molding process that will allow me to incorporate significant percentages of recycled polyethylene without significantly affecting the "creep" of plastic over time. Its early days but we
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