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Direct Pack: 2021 - Another record year of recycled PET

0:50 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Azusa, CA, United States

In 2021, Direct Pack, Inc. and its BOTTLEBOX® brand had another record year in using post-consumer recycled PET material: saving 46.9 million pounds of plastic from ending up in landfills and the ocean and making its way into their products. That is equivalent to using over 2 billion recycled beverage bottles in just one year.

As Direct Pack continue to increase their focus on recycled PET material and full circularity, the company is deepening relationships with both customer partners and suppliers of post-consumer recycled PET material. The firm is excited about this development and the success that it’s having in the market. In that process, Direct Pack are not only repurposing recycled bottles but also their own and others’ thermoformed packaging. In their Direct Pack Recycling facility, the company processed 33.8 million pieces of thermoformed packaging, which is 4 times as many as in 2020, and 955.3 million pieces of PET bottles last year.

Since 2011 when Direct Pack started measuring their rPET usage, they have used the equivalent of 9.8 billion recycled bottles, which is the same as saving 305 million pounds of CO2 from the atmosphere. In other terms, it means saving energy enough to power 24,114 households or taking 29,357 cars off the road for a year.

www.directpackinc.com

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