Everything that's great about Ribena, in 100% recycled bottles
The Ribena Team has worked day and night to bring you the industry's first ready-to-drink bottle made from 100% recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), the material that most plastic drinks bottles are made from.
The bottle is made from 100% recycled plastic, so no new plastic has been created in the bottle-making process. The bottle is also recyclable, so when you're finished drinking, just recycle as normal. This is one easy way to ensure you're doing your bit.
Recycling in the UK
In the UK almost 19 million plastic bottles are put into a landfill everyday.
Recycling 1 plastic bottle would save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.
Juicy facts
- Did you know... We throw away 8.3 million tonnes of food and drink per year in the UK. Most of this (5.3 million tonnes) could have been consumed. That's like filling 4,700 Olympic sized swimming pools.
- In terms of environmental impact, producing, storing and getting the food and drink to our homes uses a lot of energy. If we stopped wasting all this food and drink, it would save the equivalent of at least 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. That's like taking 1 in 4 cars off UK roads.
- UK households produced 30 million tonnes of waste in 2008/09, of which only 21% was collected for recycling. This figure is still quite low compared to some of our neighbouring EU countries, some recycling over 50% of their waste (source: www.defra.gov.uk)
Can you imagine the effects if we all tried that little bit harder? Click the links below to find out more.
Useful links
www.recoup.org
www.tetrapackrecycling.com
www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
www.recyclenow.com
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