Best Case: Detergent bottle of 100 percent rHDPE
The three-liter detergent bottle from the Frosch brand for the French market—where the brand is Rainett—contains 100 percent rHDPE from the Yellow Bag. In one of its highly modern recycling facilities in the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Grünstadt, PreZero makes available suitable plastic from household waste. From the resulting recyclate the packaging manufacturer Frielinghaus produces the bottles that Werner & Mertz then fills with Frosch cleaning agents at its prodution center in Mainz.
“We are pleased that we have found in PreZero a strong and competent partner to help us carry on our Recyclate Initiative. PreZero perfectly realizes the idea behind the high-quality circular economy of making new packaging out of used packaging from Yellow Bag waste,” says Timothy Glaz, Head of Corporate Affairs at Werner & Mertz.
Next projects in the planning stage
Implementation of the idea will now be developed systematically. In future, PreZero plans to provide larger amounts of HDPE recyclate in order to broaden the product portfolio. That secures the continuous availability of the material and thus fulfills a core requirement for planning certainty and scalability of the production of more plastic bottles. Moreover, the circular value chain counts on the foresighted securing of raw materials, a central topic in the sustainability strategy of Schwarz Group companies. “For us, a secure supply of raw materials begins not with the production line, but rather with a shared understanding of closed loops. With Werner & Mertz we have a partner at our side that also thinks holistically and follows the same vision. That pleases us immensely,“ says Dietmar Böhm, Executive Board Member Dual, Intragroup, Services & New Business at PreZero International.
