Global labelling and packaging materials manufacturer Avery Dennison Corporation has joined the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy 100 (CE 100) network as part of the company’s support of a global transition to a circular economy.
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Avery Dennison joins Ellen MacArthur CE 100
Avery Dennison joins Ellen MacArthur CE 100
Membership in the CE100 reflects Avery Dennison’s ongoing practice of joining forces with customers and suppliers across the supply chain to deliver solutions that can make a material difference. The company believes that meeting evolving social and environmental needs and new business challenges can best be achieved by supporting a transition to a circular economy.
Deon Stander, Corporate Lead for Sustainability, said: “Our size, scale and position within the supply chain give us a particular responsibility to aggressively act on the key principles of a circular economy – to design out waste and pollution, keep products and materials in use, and regenerate natural systems. After eight decades of global manufacturing leadership, we’ve learned the importance of reinventing and improving the materials and products we make, as well as how we make them. With the circular economy as a clear orientation point, we are moving our sustainability efforts, and our business, forward.”
Avery Dennison’s circular practices and commitments include inventing materials that improve recyclability; increasing the amount of recycled content in products; and building a global system for recycling.
Since 2015, Avery Dennison’s sustainability commitments have moved the company toward more circular practices. For example, the company has developed an entire range of one hundred-plus products in its ClearIntent Portfolio, which help customers and their end-users meet their sustainability ambitions
Avery Dennison reuses internal waste from textile processing to create new yarn products, and works with companies to recycle liner waste to prevent it from entering landfills.