Thursday 23 June 2016

Changing the Automotive industries perception of Recycled Returnable Packaging

There has been a longstanding question from automotive manufacturers about what happens to returnable packaging at the model end-of-life stage? There is also the perception that all returnable packaging is bought new.

As a result of this perception, the automotive industry assume that the value of the returnable solutions at the end of their life is zero which becomes a barrier to them moving from expendables to returnable.

Unbeknown to them that there is a bustling refurbished and recycled packaging market with specialists looking to continuously purchase packaging.

Packaging refurbishment specialist purchase totes and general purpose applications from OEM’s and tier suppliers who clean, repair and de-brand them before selling them back to the market. This is a great alternative to replacing broken or stolen returnable with new packaging.

Bespoke packaging solutions may not be fit for general re-use but in this instance they can be ground down and recycled to be re-used elsewhere. Therefore, there is no reason for the automotive industry to believe that returnable packaging has zero value at the end of its life. 


I think that some of the issue is that automotive manufacturers don’t want to talk about recycled packaging in fear of them buying their own returnable packaging back.

It is important to know that this is a legitimate market and that resellers accept packaging only with the correct legal documentation to ensure transparency.


If you would like to understand the potential of recycled packaging or find out how much your returnable packaging is worth please contact me

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