US-based agricultural cooperative Ocean Spray has partnered with recycling company TerraCycle to launch a free recycling programme.

The Ocean Spray Recycling Programme aims to help consumers to recycle Ocean Spray flexible plastic Craisins dried cranberries and snack packaging to give the brand’s packaging an innovative second life.

The programme allows participants to send their flexible plastic packaged Ocean Spray Craisins dried cranberry products to TerraCycle, where it will be melted into hard plastic. 

The hard plastic can be remoulded to produce new recycled products including park benches and picnic tables.

American agricultural cooperative, Ocean Spray, has announced that it will partner with waste management company TerraCycle to advance its sustainable packaging strategy. The two companies will launch a free recycling programme, enabling consumers to recycle Ocean Spray’s flexible plastic Craisins dried cranberries and snack packaging. The collaboration aims to help divert waste from landfills and extend the life of materials, thereby reducing the environmental footprint of food and beverage products. Consumers will be able to send the Craisins flexible plastic packaging to TerraCycle, where it can be cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be recycled and remoulded to make new products, such as park benches and picnic tables. For each shipment sent to TerraCycle through the recycling programme, participants will earn points that can be donated to a non-profit, school or charity of their choosing.

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the agricultural cooperative owned by more than 700 farmer families, announces a partnership with innovative waste management company TerraCycle to launch a free recycling program that enables consumers to recycle Ocean Spray® flexible plastic Craisins® dried cranberries and snack packaging for an alternative use. Through the partnership, Ocean Spray is advancing its sustainable packaging strategy by helping to divert waste from landfills and extending the life of materials to reduce the overall environmental footprint of a product.   Starting today, participants can send their Ocean Spray® Craisins® dried cranberry products that are in flexible plastic packaging to TerraCycle, where the packaging is cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be remolded to make new recycled products, such as park benches and picnic tables. As an added incentive, for each shipment of Ocean Spray® Craisins® dried cranberries packaging sent to TerraCycle through the Ocean Spray Recycling Program, participants earn points that can be donated to a non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice.   In addition, Ocean Spray is working with TerraCycle’s new Loop platform to develop a program where together they will design and launch products in reusable packaging to create a truly circular economy. Consumers will be able to order Ocean Spray products from Loop’s e-commerce platform, and once done with the product, will be able to simply return the packaging to Loop to clean, sanitize and refill with the original products to reuse.

Would more people recycle plastic from their food products if the process was more convenient and came with a prepaid shipping label? Ocean Spray is about to find out. The company has partnered with TerraCycle to make it easier to recycle its packaging. Consumers can send the flexible plastic packaging from Craisins dried cranberries and snacks to TerraCycle for free. Ocean Spray also plans to work with TerraCycle's Loop program to create reusable packaging for its products.   Ocean Spray's new recycling program is straight-forward: First, consumers have to sign up for a free TerraCycle account online to participate. Next, they can collect the plastic packaging from Craisins dried cranberries and snacks in any box they have at home. Once the box is full, they can request a free shipping label from their account and send the box via UPS to TerraCycle.   "We were inspired to partner with TerraCycle to advance the packaging pillar of our sustainability program given its similar commitment to tackle sustainability from several angles. We all need to focus on working together to drive forward solutions, and our work with TerraCyle does just that. TerraCycle provides us the ability to have a broad reach and tangible impact as it comes to preventing waste from entering a landfill; moreover, TerraCycle’s new Loop platform allows us to create new products and build a truly circular economy," Christina Ferzli, Head of Global Corporate Affairs at Ocean Spray, said.

TerraCycle’s reuse platform Loop is now available online in every ZIP code in the 48 contiguous states, a major milestone after the program first launched in 2019. Kroger and Loblaw are partners of the platform, among other retailers, and a TerraCylce representative recently told Store Brands that it would be developing a reusable container for select private brands to buy at those physical stores in 2021. The Loop program began in the Northeastern United States and Paris, France, and entered the United Kingdom in July, working with more than 80 brands and 400 products globally. More than 100,000 people have signed up for the service. Loop enables shoppers to buy brands in a durable, reusable package. It’s a circular system, designed to end single-use packaging. For example, a shopper can buy a silver tin for Haagen-Dazs ice cream that was developed with Loop from a retailer like Kroger or Walgreens, which gets shipped by Loop (or picked up at the store) and then shopper returns the container when done through Loop’s shipping system to get it refilled. The company likens it to the days of the milkman.

  BROOMFIELD, Colo., Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Vail Resorts and PepsiCo announced an expansion of their longstanding partnership to 18 additional Vail Resorts locations across North America, including Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Mount Snow in Vermont, and Hunter Mountain in New York. In addition to renewing and expanding their product distribution partnership to now 33 total resorts globally, PepsiCo committed to a significant investment annually in projects that support Commitment to Zero, Vail Resorts' sustainability pledge to achieve a zero net operating footprint by 2030, including zero waste to landfill. Through a multi-year sustainability roadmap, the companies will focus on waste reduction, including reducing beverage and food packaging waste and replacing wax-lined paper cups with compostable or durable PepsiCo products. Vail Resorts and PepsiCo have already begun this work at select resorts. At the end of the 2018/19 ski season, the companies shared that more than 250,000 wax-lined paper cups (or 7,750 pounds of waste) had been saved from landfill as a result of this switch at multiple on-mountain restaurants. In synergy with Vail Resorts' Commitment to Zero initiative, PepsiCo has its own target to make 100 percent of its product packaging recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable by 2025. "It is by working together, through robust partnerships with shared sustainability goals, that we'll have the most impact on climate change," said Kate Wilson, senior director of sustainability at Vail Resorts. "No one company can do it alone, and expanding our partnership with PepsiCo will allow us to make major progress toward reaching our most challenging Commitment to Zero pillar – zero waste to landfill. Our team is excited about the innovative solutions ahead as well as what we've accomplished with PepsiCo so far, which has contributed greatly to the progress we've made toward achieving our Commitment to Zero goal." "We can make a tremendous impact at scale through high-volume consumer touch points like resorts and sports & entertainment venues," said Scott Finlow, chief marketing officer, PepsiCo Foodservice. "It's rewarding to team up with like-minded partners like Vail Resorts to co-create sustainability initiatives that address short-term business requirements while working to reach longer-term ambitions." In addition to waste diversion efforts, PepsiCo also will support Vail Resorts' sustainability commitments through guest-facing education initiatives, joint marketing efforts and creative upcycling projects. This season, Vail Resorts and PepsiCo will partner with international recycling leader TerraCycle to create picnic tables and Adirondack chairs out of recycled snack and candy wrappers for guests to enjoy at Park City, Keystone, Beaver Creek, Vail and Breckenridge resorts. The companies also are partnering with Fuse Marketing and Snow Park Technologies to develop a terrain park feature at Breckenridge made partially of recycled plastic and snack and candy wrapper material. The renewed partnership between the companies also will add PepsiCo beverages for Vail Resorts' guests to enjoy in-resort at many of the newly added properties, including bubly, LIFEWTR and Gatorade. The 18 resorts included in the expanded partnership include Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia; Mount Snow in Vermont; Hunter Mountain in New York; Attitash, Wildcat and Crotched Mountain in New Hampshire; Liberty, Roundtop, Whitetail, Jack Frost and Big Boulder in Pennsylvania; Alpine Valley, Boston Mills, Brandywine and Mad River in Ohio; Hidden Valley and Snow Creek in Missouri; and Paoli Peaks in Indiana. About Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN) Vail Resorts, Inc., through its subsidiaries, is the leading global mountain resort operator. Vail Resorts' subsidiaries operate 37 world-class mountain resorts and urban ski areas, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Crested Butte in Colorado; Park City in Utah; Heavenly, Northstar and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia, Canada; Perisher, Falls Creek and Hotham in Australia; Stowe, Mount Snow, Okemo in Vermont; Hunter Mountain in New York; Mount Sunapee, Attitash, Wildcat and Crotched in New Hampshire; Stevens Pass in Washington; Liberty, Roundtop, Whitetail, Jack Frost and Big Boulder in Pennsylvania; Alpine Valley, Boston Mills, Brandywine and Mad River in Ohio; Hidden Valley and Snow Creek in Missouri; Wilmot in Wisconsin; Afton Alps in Minnesota; Mt. Brighton in Michigan; and Paoli Peaks in Indiana. Vail Resorts owns and/or manages a collection of casually elegant hotels under the RockResorts brand, as well as the Grand Teton Lodge Company in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Vail Resorts Development Company is the real estate planning and development subsidiary of Vail Resorts, Inc. Vail Resorts is a publicly held company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: MTN). The Vail Resorts company website is www.vailresorts.com and consumer website is www.snow.com. About PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $67 billion in net revenue in 2019, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 23 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales. Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Convenient Foods and Beverages by Winning with Purpose. "Winning with Purpose" reflects our ambition to win sustainably in the marketplace and embed purpose into all aspects of the business. For more information, visit www.pepsico.com

C’est Moi has become the latest beauty brand to team up with TerraCycle on a new sustainability effort. C’est Moi customers across the United States can now recycle their used, rigid plastic packaging with the help of TerraCycle, a social enterprise with the primary goal of eliminating waste. Participants can request a free TerraCycle recycling envelope to recycle their empty C’est Moi packaging, which will arrive in the US mail within one-two weeks. Once received, customers simply remove the prepaid return label from inside the envelope, fill it with their used C’est Moi products, seal and return via USPS.

C’est Moi has become the latest beauty brand to team up with TerraCycle on a new sustainability effort. C’est Moi customers across the United States can now recycle their used, rigid plastic packaging with the help of TerraCycle, a social enterprise with the primary goal of eliminating waste. Participants can request a free TerraCycle recycling envelope to recycle their empty C’est Moi packaging, which will arrive in the US mail within one-two weeks. Once received, customers simply remove the prepaid return label from inside the envelope, fill it with their used C’est Moi products, seal and return via USPS.