{"id":8233,"date":"2020-02-21T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:52","slug":"kenya-unilever-introduces-100-recyclable-plastic-packaging-in-east-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/21\/kenya-unilever-introduces-100-recyclable-plastic-packaging-in-east-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Unilever Introduces 100% Recyclable Plastic Packaging In East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Dutch-British multinational Unilever has recently launched its first plastic packaging made from 100% recycled flexible materials in Nairobi, Kenya. Thousands of tonnes of virgin plastics will be reduced each year in Africa as a result of this initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scouring powder \u201cSunlight\u201d is Unilever\u2019s first product with fully recyclable packaging so far in Kenya. The new packaging has been presented to the public a few days ago in Nairobi by the Dutch-British multinational. The company\u2019s new packaging, including that of the \u201csunlight\u201d cleaning product, weighs 500 grams and 1 kilogram respectively. They will be marketed in Kenya and the rest of the East African sub-region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201csunlight\u201d project is part of the \u201cU-turn waste management project\u201d launched by Unilever in 2018 in Kenya. It was developed in collaboration with waste management service provider Green Africa Trading.\u00a0<em>\u201cIt is an important step in demonstrating that it is possible to create a sustainable, inclusive, traceable and fair circular economy for plastics in emerging markets. Kenya is leading the way in thinking about this issue,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>says Keiran Smith, co-founder and CEO of Green Trading Africa. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrik21.africa\/en\/kenya-unilever-introduces-100-recyclable-plastic-packaging-in-east-africa\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch-British multinational Unilever has recently launched its first plastic packaging made from 100% recycled flexible materials in Nairobi, Kenya. Thousands of tonnes of virgin plastics will be reduced each&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8234,"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-8233","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\/8233","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=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}