{"id":6923,"date":"2019-12-03T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","slug":"unilever-and-viridor-sign-5-year-recycling-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/03\/unilever-and-viridor-sign-5-year-recycling-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilever And Viridor Sign 5 Year Recycling Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>By\u00a0Dan Edel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unilever, the fifth largest plastic polluter in the world is taking steps to do something about it. The British-Dutch company produces products for the food and beverage industry along with health and beauty products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a report released by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakfreefromplastic.org\/globalbrandauditreport2019\/\">Break Free From Plastic<\/a>&nbsp;(BFFP) in October, it identified the top corporate plastic polluters in the world and urged those companies to take immediate action to make changes. With a need for these corporations to address the primary issue of reducing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/tag\/plastic\/\">plastic<\/a>&nbsp;dependence and also important, using the plastic we currently have rather than producing more new plastics to add to the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unilever alone owns more than 400 brands, so their decision to make changes can have a big effect. The company has just recently signed an agreement with UK recycling and waste management company&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.viridor.co.uk\/\">Viridor<\/a>. The two companies have agreed to an initial five-year contract for recycled plastic, according to a statement released by Viridor on November 20th.<ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Viridor has a new plant set for operation in 2021. According to Viridor the \u00a365m Avonmouth facility will be the largest multi-polymer reprocessing plant in the UK. Recycling of post-consumer bottles, pots, and other materials containing PET, PP, and HDPE materials will be handled at the plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentliving.co\/unilever-viridor-sign-5-year-recycling-pact\/\">Read more&#8230; <\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Dan Edel Unilever, the fifth largest plastic polluter in the world is taking steps to do something about it. The British-Dutch company produces products for the food and beverage industry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}