TerraCycle Founder and CEO Tom Szaky shares news on the upcycling company’s work creating a supply chain for ocean plastics and provides a peek at the upcoming launch of its transformational Loop platform.

Welcome to Planet for All—a series that will empower you to change our world. This week, we’re teaming up with sustainable thought leaders to unpack five of the biggest threats to our environment and pinpoint accessible, meaningful, and heart-driven action that we can all take to make a huge difference. Today, we’re exploring the massive plastic waste problem with tell-it-like-it-is trailblazer Tom Szaky.

A large number of global consumer companies have launched an initiative to reduce waste from packaging. Through the Loop service, companies like Unilever, Nestle and Coca Cola are planning to offer reusable packaging that is collected after use and then refilled and reused. Photo: Walk Some of the world's largest consumer companies have joined forces with the recycling company TerraCycle to launch a global shopping system for reusable packaging. The shopping system Loop has been developed to reduce the world's dependence on disposable plastic by offering circular solutions for consumer products. Through Loop, companies plan to offer consumers reusable packaging that is collected after use and then cleaned, refilled and reused. Loop was launched during the World Economic Forum's Davos Summit. Over 20 global consumer companies have been involved in financing Loop, including Procter & Gamle, Nestle, Unilever, Pepsi, Coca Cola and Body Shop. Food chains such as British Tesco and the logistics company UPS also participate in the initiative. "Loop is a long-awaited innovation that challenges companies to take a new grip on our value chains and integrate reusable product packaging as part of our work to reduce waste," says Laurent Freixe, CEO of Nestlé in the US, in a comment. According to the life cycle analyzes that Loop has carried out together with its partners, the environmental benefits of the long-lasting products show that they are better than for disposable packaging, while at the same time the waste is reduced. Loop will be launched in the spring in France and the Northeast USA. The service is expected to be launched in more countries in 2019 and 2020. A spokesperson from Loop tells Current Sustainability that so far there are plans to launch the service in the UK, Canada and Tokyo, but more markets are expected to be in the future.

在環保這個議題上，一出手就知道有沒有，相較聯合利華的口頭承諾，P&G倒是有誠意許多，直接提出具體包裝設計。該集團選出旗下的海倫仙度絲，試行環保包裝瓶，而且還從海灘上的塑料垃圾著手，直接取用為原料，在瓶身材料中占比更高達25%。此外，海倫仙度絲還將與家樂福合作推出一款洗髮精，瓶身由美國廢物回收公司TerraCycle和法國環保能源集團Suez聯合生產，不用等到下個10年，P&G希望在2018年底，將洗護髪品牌的再生塑料瓶比例提升至90%，并擴及至潘婷等旗下其他品牌。

Von einer hervorragenden Idee sprach auch Esther Dreisbach, Regionalleiterin der Arbeiterwohlfahrt für die Kindergärten Bad Laasphe/Erndtebrück. Hier hätten sich die Eltern wunderbar engagiert und die Aktion sei ganz im Sinne der AWo, die den schonenden Umgang mit Ressourcen auch in ihren Zielen verankert habe. Genau darum ging es auch bei der Aktion der Drogeriekette dm mit ihren Kooperationspartnern Terra-Cycle sowie Unilever. „Wir wollen den Kindern zeigen, dass aus Müll auch wieder etwas Schönes entstehen kann“, erläuterte dm-Gebietsverantwortlicher Stephan Welinow die Idee hinter der Initiative „R’cycle“, die für einen nachhaltigen Umgang mit Ressourcen wirbt.

Der dm-drogerie Markt ließ zusammen mit den Unternehmen TerraCycle und Unilever Kinderfahrräder aus Aluminiumdosen herstellen, welche an 200 verschiedene soziale Vereine und Institutionen gespendet werden. Zehn wurden in Karlsruhe offiziell übergeben.

其他大型国际品牌也参与到了“循环经济”中。 宝洁也在达沃斯宣布，将会生产世界上第一个由可回收材料制成的洗发水瓶，瓶身的25％由沙滩上的回收塑料制成。 这项创举是保洁与回收专家TerraCycle和SUEZ合作的结果，将在今年夏季登录法国。

其他大型国际品牌也参与到了“循环经济”中。宝洁也在达沃斯宣布，将会生产世界上第一个由可回收材料制成的洗发水瓶，瓶身的25％由沙滩上的回收塑料制成。这项创举是保洁与回收专家TerraCycle和SUEZ合作的结果，将在今年夏季登录法国。

其他大型国际品牌也参与到了“循环经济”中。 宝洁也在达沃斯宣布，将会生产世界上第一个由可回收材料制成的洗发水瓶，瓶身的25％由沙滩上的回收塑料制成。 这项创举是保洁与回收专家TerraCycle和SUEZ合作的结果，将在今年夏季登录法国。

2017年1月底，宝洁公司在瑞士达沃斯世界经济论坛上宣布，将在今年夏季推出黑色瓶装的限量版海飞丝洗发水，该款产品包材由美国废物回收公司 TerraCycle和法国公用事业公司 Suez 联合生产，瓶中含有高达25%的再生海滩塑料。