Packaging plays a critical role in our daily lives. It protects the products we love and provides helpful tips and information about responsible use and disposal. As leaders in sustainability at Henkel, we are committed to creating packaging that keeps our products safe, and offering better solutions to mitigating waste, and promoting recycling.
Throughout the last several decades, packaging has grown more elaborate as manufacturers aim to better protect and promote their products. Today, sustainability guides every packaging design choice we make at Henkel. We seek to not only effectively package our products but do so in a responsible way that contributes to a circular economy.
Our efforts to drive sustainability in packaging development, is brought to life through our ongoing collaboration with partners. One of these key partnerships is with TerraCycle®, a global recycling leader in the collection, recovery, and reuse of waste, that partners with companies to recycle and upcycle waste — saving it from incineration or landfill dumping by converting it into new products. With TerraCycle®, product packaging that is otherwise difficult to recycle and not accepted in curbside pick-up programs, is recyclable.
Henkel’s partnership with TerraCycle® helps enable Henkel North America to meet ambitious sustainability targets for packaging. Specifically, by 2025, we are on track to design 100 percent of our packaging to be recyclable or reusable*, we aim to cut fossil plastics by 50 percent, and send zero plastic waste to landfills from our plants.
“Henkel products and technologies are used millions of times around the world every day. That means we can have a powerful impact on the environment by developing more sustainable packaging solutions,” says Jillaine Dellis, Head of Sustainability, Consumer Goods, North America. “We are proud to partner with TerraCycle® to create packaging that protects the products we love, while helping our company and consumers reduce their impact on the planet.”