{"id":121133,"date":"2021-09-09T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=121133"},"modified":"2021-09-09T12:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:54:39","slug":"he-convinced-the-worlds-biggest-brands-to-take-a-risk-on-reusable-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/he-convinced-the-worlds-biggest-brands-to-take-a-risk-on-reusable-containers\/","title":{"rendered":"He convinced the world&#39;s biggest brands to take a risk on reusable containers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Taco Bell has a plan in place to recycle some of the 8 billion pounds of used sauce packets that go into US landfills every year.<\/p>\n<p>The fast food chain is rolling out a nationwide pilot program for customers to send used sauce packets back through the mail. The program, which was initially announced as a trial in April, was created with recycling company TerraCycle to &#8220;divert as many used sauce packets as possible away from landfills&#8221; and reuse them.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s how it works: Customers sign up for a TerraCycle account, collect empty sauce packets in a recyclable container, print a free shipping label from TerraCycle&#8217;s website and ship the box back via UPS. Taco Bell will display QR codes and other signage in various parts of restaurants to promote the program and encourage sign-ups.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taco Bell has a plan to reuse sauce packets.\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/210909082610-taco-bell-reusing-sauce-packets-large-169.jpg\"><br \/>\nRather than dropping off the used sauce packets at a restaurant, Taco Bell is using the mail, because a &#8220;majority&#8221; of transactions are taking place at its drive-thru and are eaten out-of-restaurant. It also discovered this was the preferred way for customers during its pilot launch and the mail helps them &#8220;minimize their transportation footprint and ship their box of saved sauce packets once full.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>The massive number of sauce packets thrown out every year is potentially environmentally damaging. About 710 million metric tons of plastic will pollute the environment by 2040 if action isn&#8217;t taken, according to a study published in &#8220;Science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taco Bell is one of the first food brands to use TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based company that helps big businesses become greener. It has worked with <span>Procter &amp; Gamble<\/span> <span>(<span>PG<\/span>)<\/span>, <span>Unilever<\/span> <span>(<span>UL<\/span>)<\/span> and Nestl\u00e9 to help manufacture reusable packaging in place of single-use packages that end up in landfills.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>The taco chain is hoping that by 2025, packaging used by its customers will be fully &#8220;recyclable, compostable, or reusable&#8221; across all of its 7,000 global locations. It said that this program is the &#8220;first step, but not the final step&#8221; in becoming a more sustainable brand.<br \/>\nLast year, Taco Bell claimed it had ditched its popular Mexican Pizza because of its packaging, which amounted the use of more than 7 million pounds of paperboard per year.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/09\/business\/taco-bell-sauce-packet-program\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Taco Bell has a plan in place to recycle some of the 8 billion pounds of used sauce packets that go into [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>He convinced the world&#039;s biggest brands to take a risk on reusable containers - 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