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Solution to recycling previously unrecyclable equipment

15 July 2022

Zero Waste Boxes allow food manufacturers to recycle equipment otherwise destined for landfill or incineration – including hair nets, earplugs, disposable gloves and safety equipment. 

Quorn Foods says boxes have allowed the business to save more than a thousand pieces of plastic from landfill and incineration so far
 
TerraCycle is a leader in recycling hard-to-recycle waste. It has recently created a range of Zero Waste Boxes designed to allow food manufacturers to recycle hair nets, earplugs, disposable gloves and safety equipment – items that aren’t collected by councils and waste management companies for recycling so are traditionally destined for landfills or incineration. TerraCycle, however, can recycle these items, and the Zero Waste Boxes allow food manufacturers to offer a sustainable solution for these types of equipment. 
 
The boxes, available to be purchased from the Zero Waste Box website, are delivered to the sites where staff can fill them with the accepted waste. Once full, the prepaid and pre-attached shipping labels are used to send the box back to TerraCycle where it will be sorted and the items sent for processing. The price of each Zero Waste Box covers the box, shipping, storage at the Materials Recovery Facility and processing costs, as well as the costs of transporting and sorting the waste. 
 
Quorn Foods is using the Disposable Gloves Zero Waste Box and the Centrifuge Tubes and Rigid Lab Plastics Zero Waste Box in its laboratories. It purchased the boxes to find a sustainable solution to dispose of the plastic waste used in their labs, including plastic gloves. By using the Zero Waste Boxes it has saved an estimated 1,500 pairs from going to landfill or incineration. Through the Centrifuge Tubes and Rigid Lab Plastics Zero Waste Box they have ensured more than 500 pieces of single use rigid plastic have been recycled too. 
 
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