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Müller moves into recyclable milk caps
Müller, Britain’s leading producer of branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients is rolling out a new lightweight recyclable milk cap, which uses 13% less plastic material.
The innovative solution allows the business to remove 300 tonnes of plastic every year, the equivalent weight of 231 million milk caps.
The dairy company has worked with PACCOR for the last 18 months to design, trial and rollout the new compression mould caps.
Having successfully completed various trials across Müller’s network of state-of-the-art dairies throughout 2018, all of Müller’s branded and private label fresh milk products will include the new lighter cap, which weighs just 1.3g, from February 2019.
Müller’s HDPE fresh milk bottles, used for all branded and private label fresh milk products, are already 100% recyclable and the business is aiming to increase the use of recycled plastic in its bottles to a target of 50% by 2020.
Patrick Müller, CEO of Müller Milk & Ingredients said: “We’re clear about the need to reduce our use of plastic, and we have removed 10,000 tonnes of plastic from our milk bottles since 2016. This is great progress, but we can, and we will do more.
“Customers and consumers can be assured that Müller is working to lead in this and other important areas. We are convinced that the work we do with our packaging, operational excellence and with dairy farmers who supply us to protect against market volatility, are real points of difference.”
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