Nestle aims to achieve 25% recycled plastic in its packaging by 2021

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Nestle Waters North America(NWNA)has announced that it will achieve 25% recycled plastic across its U.S.domestic portfolio by 2021.The company plans to continue expanding its use of recycled materials in the coming years,further setting an ambition to reach 50% recycled plastic by 2025.The company is expanding its relationship with key supplier,Plastrec(Jo-liette,Canada),and working with other suppliers to support the company's ability to nearly quadruple its use of food-grade recycled plastic,or rPET,in less than three years.This comes on the heels of Nestle Waters’announcement last month about the expansion of its partnership with CarbonLITE,as the rPET supplier builds a third U.S.facility in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania."We want to take the’single’out of’single-use’bottles.Our bottles were never meant to be thrown in the garbage-we carefully design them to be collected,recycled,and repurposed,”said Fernando Merce,president and CEO of Nestle Waters North America."PET plastic is a valuable resource that,if recycled properly,can be used to create new bottles again and again.We're proving that it can be done by making bottles out of other bottles,not ten years from now,but today.”