| TYPE OF PROGRAM: CSR

| START: April 2022

| STATUS: On-going

| TARGET: Beach clean-up & Educational Seminars

| PARTNERSHIP SUMMARY:

“Addressing complex issues such as climate change and circularity requires transformational innovation, collaboration and collective action among customers, suppliers, governments, recycling and waste collection partners and much more.”
— John Jose, Marketing Director of Tetra Pak Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia

Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak is a pioneer and world leading food processing and packaging solutions company. The company commits itself to making food safe and available everywhere. Known to Protect what’s good, the company serves a purpose in finding innovative and environmentally sound solutions for food, people, and the planet. Since 1952, the company has continuously strived to pioneer technologies that can keep food safe even without refrigeration.

The solutions company is known for its Tetra Pak carton packages. It uses paperboard as its main material which provides stability, strength, and smoothness to the printing surface. It also uses polyethylene to protect the products against moisture and enables the paperboard to stick to the aluminum foil—a material that protects the product from oxygen and light to maintain the nutritional value and flavors of the food in ambient temperature

Tetra Pak is also serving its customers in The Philippines. It partners with industry, non-governmental, and intergovernmental organizations as well as multi-stakeholder initiatives to raise awareness in sustainability. As such, it partnered with The Plastic Flamingo for a joint commitment to collect their used beverage cartons (UBCs) for them to recycle.

Like the social enterprise, Tetra Pak also values circularity. They acknowledge that plastic pollution brought by plastic packaging can be detrimental to the environment that is why it prides itself in its journey to become the world’s first sustainable packaging—a fully renewable, fully recyclable, and carbon-neutral carton. With the help of The Plastic Flamingo’s collection points, various communities and individuals can drop-off their UBCs and ensure that it is routed to Tetra Pak for its safe and sustainable recycling process. This prevents the cartons from the waters and be left as a mismanaged packaging waste.

According to Marketing Director of Tetra Pak Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Indonesia John Jose,  “In the Philippines, we will continue to work with our customers and partners to make food safe and available to more Filipinos through innovative packaging (and processing) solutions. Some of our customers have already adopted using carton packaging instead of other alternative materials and have also adopted using plant-based caps.”

As such, the partnership between The Plastic Flamingo and Tetra Pak aims to raise awareness in the possible solutions for sustainable packaging as well as the responsibility of individuals in keeping the planet away from the mismanagement of plastic wastes. 

Should you have any UBCs available in your homes or communities, feel free to drop them in any of the 250+ collection points of The Plastic Flamingo which can be viewed here: https://www.theplaf.com/collectplastics.