Hain Celestial to partner with How2Recycle
Hain Celestial to partner with How2Recycle
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The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., an organic and natural products company based in New York, has announced Hain Celestial’s North American business has joined the How2Recycle label program. How2Recycle is a U.S.- and Canadian-based standardized labeling system that enables companies to clearly communicate how to recycle a package, improving the reliability, completeness and transparency of recyclability claims.
As a manufacturer of health and wellness brands with a shared mission “to inspire healthier living for all,” Hain says one of its core principles is understanding how its products and operations impact people and the planet, and how to minimize those impacts. In its 2021 global environmental, social and governance (ESG) report, Hain publicly committed to improve packaging sustainability and announced two goals: adding standardized recycling labels to 100 percent of Hain products by the end of 2025 in order to provide reliable transparent recycling information for consumers and publishing a sustainable packaging strategy by 2023.
“In addition to providing transparent recycling labeling for our North American and U.K. consumers, we want to do our part to prevent recycling contamination by keeping non-recyclable packaging out of recycling bins,” says Executive Vice President Kristy Meringolo, general counsel, corporate secretary, chief compliance officer and executive sponsor of ESG at Hain Celestial. “As we continue to optimize our packaging portfolio, with a focus on more sustainable packaging, we look forward to partnering with How2Recycle to drive awareness, allowing consumers to make more informed purchasing decisions.”
Hain says the partnership with How2Recycle is an important step in achieving one of its ESG objectives, as well as an opportunity for Hain to further support the objectives of its North American retail partners, many of which encourage the use of How2Recycle labels on packaging. Hain has begun the process of adding How2Recycle labels to Alba Botanica sun care products, and will be expanding the label to additional products over the next three years. Hain Daniels, Hain’s U.K. business, is already using the On-Pack recycling label, a similar standardized label to transparently communicate the recyclability of its packaging and meet the labelling standards for its UK retail partners.
Hain says it has launched other projects over the past three years to transition to more sustainable packaging formats by removing unnecessary packaging, increasing the percentage of recycled content for plastic and paper packaging, while reducing the amount of virgin plastic in its portfolio. Hain is simultaneously working to develop its first sustainable packaging strategy by collecting packaging data from its suppliers to develop a comprehensive baseline and consolidate that data in order to develop meaningful targets.
“The packaging inventory is a crucial first step for developing a portfolio wide packaging strategy that will enable our teams to make more sustainable packaging decisions,” Senior Vice President of Research and Development Jeff George says. “Our goal over time is to develop more sustainable packaging, without compromising quality and functionality for our consumers.”
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Source: Recycling Today
Hain Celestial to partner with How2Recycle
<![CDATA[The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., an organic and natural products company based in New York, has announced Hain Celestial’s North American business has joined the How2Recycle label program. How2Recycle is a U.S.- and Canadian-based standardized labeling system that enables companies to clearly communicate how to recycle a package, improving the reliability, completeness and transparency of recyclability claims. As a manufacturer of health and wellness brands with a shared mission “to inspire healthier living for all,” Hain says one of its core principles is understanding how its products and operations impact people and the planet, and how to minimize those impacts. In its 2021 global environmental, social and governance (ESG) report, Hain publicly committed to improve packaging sustainability and announced two goals: adding standardized recycling labels to 100 percent of Hain products by the end of 2025 in order to provide reliable transparent recycling information for consumers and publishing a sustainable packaging strategy by 2023.“In addition to providing transparent recycling labeling for our North American and U.K. consumers, we want to do our part to prevent recycling contamination by keeping non-recyclable packaging out of recycling bins,” says Executive Vice President Kristy Meringolo, general counsel, corporate secretary, chief compliance officer and executive…