Orbis Corporation has introduced a recyclable plastics material for use in a variety of its reusable packaging solutions.
Orbis’ Ocean in Mind programme incorporates packaging made with recycled plastics material recovered near major waterways, helping to clean up coastline waste and stimulate local economies. Once collected, the plastics is sorted, reprocessed and used to make reusable packaging for the supply chain.
“Orbis is always exploring material innovations in the sustainable packaging industry,” said Breanna Herbert, associate product manager and sustainability lead at Orbis. “By design, our products help reduce waste through re-use. This initiative takes recycling and reusability a step further by recovering waste from coastlines and repurposing it back into our product. We’re excited to offer our customers a material that not only improves supply chain sustainability but repurposes plastic at risk of entering our waterways.”
With this new capability, coastline plastics waste is blended with other materials during the Orbis manufacturing process to create finished goods. Once that packaging reaches the end of its service life, it’s fully recyclable through Orbis’ recycling programme, which recovers and reprocesses obsolete and surplus packaging into new products.
Using life-cycle data, Orbis compares reusable and single-use packaging and calculates the environmental impacts to provide companies with unbiased measurable data as they make the switch to reusables. Orbis’ portfolio also includes reusable plastics totes, pallets, dunnage and bulk systems made from recycled plastics.
