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Nice work. Are you using a chemical foaming agent in the cap to reduce polymer, costs, cycle times and carbon footprint? If not then speak to the team at Broadway to find out more about our endothermic blowing agent. 🫧
Congratulations on your success. Are you thinking universal bottle design to be used by many companies so that they can be collected back together and redistributed to the bottles regardless of the brand? May I ask what testing have you done on the potential leaching of chemicals from the plastic into the milk? This is one of the dilemmas with material choice. As you pointed out, plastic is lighter than glass, reducing carbon emissions, but what are the health implications? Whatever the material - and hopefully someday soon it will not be fossil-fuel based and loaded with chemicals - refillable pkg designs which can be used across brands have to be the future. #saynotosingleuse #ditchdisposables #refillable #packagingdesign #redesign
Amazing work by the Abel & Cole | B Corp™ team to push forward reusable packaging. A company with heart that very often leads the way in retail innovation. 👏 Dizzie very proud to partner with A&C and looking forward to bringing many more products to reusable packaging formats.
Brilliant work Abel & Cole | B Corp™ 👏 👏 👏
Really exciting development. Can you say how many times you expect to be able to refill the plastic bottles in your scheme, and how that compares with glass milk bottles in the real world (Milk & More claim their glass bottle are used on average 25 times before recycling)? Thanks!
Incredible work Abel & Cole | B Corp™ - brilliant you are sharing this with the industry. I hope the supermarkets get on board stat. Here's to real systems change 🚀
I don't get this. In the 1990's plastic bottles for milk where the norm in the Nederlands. AFAIK due to being cheaper, milk cartons where being pushed by supermarkets. Now after more or less the whole production line has become obsolete, this is supposed to be something new. BTW, some minor biological milk producers still use plastic bottles. Question how is this new from the old plastic bottles? N.B. I personnally think the glass bottles should return. It may produce more CO2 (production and transport), but that is solveable with carbon capture and the right price. At the end it produces less plastic pollution, which is far less easily solved.
Congratulations! This is a really exciting development. Thank you for sharing!
Congratulations Abel & Cole | B Corp™ team, it's a brilliant achievement towards shifting the norm to refillable solutions, I do hope other retailers follow suit! I can't help thinking, however, what are the potential challenges of chemical leaching in refillable PP packaging? Was this something that came up for your team and how was it approached? I couldn't see anything about it on your 'science behind' page, I will confess I'm no expert simply curious. I'd love to hear PlasticFree.com thoughts too, thanks
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1yGreat bit of research Abel & Cole | B Corp™. Let's see what happens. I am of an age where milk was delivered in glass bottles. How often does your product need replacing and hygiene-wise, what are the implications?