Plastic Handle Recycling Program Helps Close the Loop

Plastic multipack carrier producer PakTech launches its own recycling program to ensure the collection and recycling of its products.

Under its recycling program, PakTech supplies partners with bins for the collection of used multipack handles.
Under its recycling program, PakTech supplies partners with bins for the collection of used multipack handles.

PakTech is an enthusiastic advocate of sustainable packaging, both in the materials it uses for its plastic handles and now in the way it ensures those materials are collected for reuse. The company’s handles for multipack cans and bottles are injection-molded from 100% recycled high-density polyethylene sourced from milk jugs and similar containers and are 100% recyclable, where recycling systems exist for this material.

At PACK EXPO Las Vegas, PakTech Marketing Manager Elizabeth Kouns shared environmental stats on the company’s handles, which she says have grown even stronger since the most recently reported information, which includes:

  • More than 408 million milk jugs turned into PakTech handles
  • Kept 56 million pounds of plastic out of landfills and oceans
  • Saved 22 acres of land from being used as landfill waste
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