Although Stonyfield Farm believes source reduction is the best way to minimize the burden of its packaging on the environment, the yogurt maker hasn’t abandoned reuse and recycling. In fact, for those two “Rs” the New Londonderry, NH, company is literally putting its money where its mouth is.
In 2000, for example, Stonyfield began a partnership with Recycline Inc. The Somerville, MA, firm markets toothbrushes whose bases are made primarily from post-consumer and post-industrial Stonyfield yogurt cup material. (Organisms are destroyed during post-grinding and reheating stages where the cup material reaches temperatures exceeding 350°F.)
