In his report on global responsibility of 2025, General Mills will enter into considerable details in relation to the approach for flexible packaging and strategies to facilitate the recycling flexible packaging.
The company states that £ 13 percent or £ 165 million is plastic by weight, with the vast majority being flexible plastic.
“Our main focus is on the transition to Mono-Pe, which can be recycled by the store tax in the USA,” explains the company. “General Mills realized early on that the only infrastructure with widespread access to recycling flexibes takes place through the store-finding containers in front of many retail locations across the country.”
The company adds: “Retailers can offer this benefit to consumers by combining their pallet packaging with mono-PE packaging and recycling them with responsible final markets. For example, a large part of this material is used to create compound decks.
The company uses the How-2recycle ™-Spore-Store-Store store label for all its packaging that has made the transition to Mono-PE, and the company denotes its multimaterial packaging with a do-not recycle graphic to avoid the confusion of consumers.
“So know that there is a lot to do to do to make it Easier for Consumers to recycle mono-pe flexibles, and that is why we have beed providing finding finding finding Film & Flexible Collaborative, The Association of Plastic Recyclers (Apr) Pe Film Design guide and the sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) Flexible Packaging Recovery Collaborative AS Well as Supporting The Flexible Films Recycling Alliance (FFRA), “The company notes.
The company's efforts to improve the recycling infrastructure include investing in the state-of-the-art plastic recycling plant of the GdB Circular (MN), Inc. in the company's home state.
“By reaching our package section, both integration and ownership in the entire company requires. For this reason, each of our business segments – North America retail, North America Foodservice, PET and internationally – now assigned committed teams and resources to achieve this commitment,” explains the company.
Each segment has set a sliding path for the remaining packaging conversions, which are 100% recyclable/reusable by 2030, and will concentrate on execution of these plans in the next few years.