Recycling and Anchor LIGHT PROOF™ Bottles Closing the Loop the Life Cycle of Anchor LIGHT PROOF™ Bottles
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Hungry Bins Pipes & Culverts Slip Sheets Recycling and Anchor LIGHT PROOF™ bottles Closing the loop The life cycle of Anchor LIGHT PROOF™ bottles Fonterra Production Consumer Purchase Supermarket, dairy etc Rural Urban Collection or drop-off Kerbside collection Community Other council Manual Automatic recycling recycling sort sort network sites recycling recycling Rural Astron Direct Comspec Replas Recycled product pipeline Pellets Anchor LIGHT PROOF™ bottles as Building seen in… Cladding Why a LIGHT proofTM bottle? Research* shows that light damages milk. As little Pipe as 2 - 4 hours of light exposure degrades its vitamin levels, including A and B2, as well as its fresh taste. All milk is good, but only milk that is protected from Culvert Playground the light retains its optimum nutrients and freshness Matting throughout its shelf life. Hungry Bin Recycling Anchor bottles in NZ Anchor LIGHT PROOF™ bottles are made from high- grade, recyclable HDPE plastic. In fact, they are part of a fully closed loop recycling system within New Zealand. This means there is capacity amongst New Zealand based recyclers to use 100% of recycled Anchor bottles in the manufacture of new products. So, the bottles can stay in New Zealand rather than be shipped overseas and recycling separators will receive good value for them. Trellis Pipe & Netting Products made from Anchor bottles Anchor LIGHT PROOF™ bottles have been recycled into a range of products in New Zealand. One of the latest products to be developed is a Hungry Bin Hungry Bins at Ponsonby food composting system made with 25% Anchor Central milk bottle content. Slip Sheets Pipes *Chapman K.W, Whited L.J & Boor K.J. 2002. Sensory Threshold of Light-Oxidised Flavour Defects in Milk. Journal of Food Science, 67 (7), 2770-2773 Let’s stay in touch Nic Bishop Extended Producer Responsibility, Closing the Loop Environmental Manager [email protected] and Recycling are important to the team at Anchor. Hannah Hope A range of products are made using recycled Anchor Sustainability Advisor – LIGHT PROOFTM bottles. The bottles are in demand Milk for Schools [email protected] from New Zealand recyclers including Astron, Comspec, Replas and Rural Direct, who have indicated Phil Tottle they have capacity to recycle 100% of Anchor bottles Eco-efficiency Technologist into new products. We encourage local recyclers to [email protected] take up this offer. Larisa Thathiah Anchor will host a forum for recycling collectors, Recycling Advisor [email protected] recycling separators, recycled product manufacturers and materials experts 4 monthly to facilitate and identify opportuities for increased use of recycled content in products manufactured here in New Zealand. If you would like to be involved please contact the Anchor Sustainability Team Rural Astron Comspec Replas Direct Steve Mead Robert Fowler Harry Burkhardt Neil van Duyn General Manager General Manager Managing Director Managing Director steve.mead@ Comspec harry@replassheet neil@rrdmanufa auckdrum.co.nz .com cturing.co.nz Phone Phone Phone Phone 09 273 1160 03 344 5016 09 576 9652 09 297 2045 43 Cryers Road 12 Prairie Place 4 Canon Place RD Manufacturing East Tamaki Hornby Pakuranga Limited, 105 Manukau Christchurch Auckland Settlement Auckland 2013 Road, Papakura, Auckland.