Packaging company AE Global has expanded its partnership with rePurpose Global to offer a sustainability program that funds ocean-bound plastic cleanup efforts from funds saved on packaging costs and supply chain efficiencies.
With this partnership, AE Global can offer customers packaging solutions that are certified Plastic Negative or Plastic Neutral. When a packaging solution is deemed Plastic Neutral it signifies that rePurpose Global will remove an equal amount of plastic from the environment as was used in that package. A Plastic Negative certification indicates that more than double the amount of plastic used to make a packaging solution is being removed from nature.
Prior to the official partnership, rePurpose has recovered 383,932 pounds of ocean-bound plastic funded by AE Global. This impact is equivalent to removing 9.6 million plastic bottles from the environment.
In addition to rePurpose Global’s large-scale plastic recovery efforts, the partnership provides AE Global’s customers a vehicle for communicating environmental impact: Talk Trash, powered by Small Circle. Talk Trash lets brands illustrate impact with credibility through marketing tools, impact reports, and Plastic Negative or Plastic Neutral seals on packaging solutions.
