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Amcor boosts PCR use by 37%
When one of the world's largest packaging producers reports a 37% jump in post-consumer resin use, every reclaimer in the hemisphere feels the signal.
Brand pledges make headlines; converter purchasing makes markets. The story GHD shared at the start of 2021 was the second kind: packaging giant Amcor reporting that its use of post-consumer resin had grown 37%.
Numbers like that are how recycled content stops being a marketing line and becomes procurement. Each percentage point represented bales collected, flake washed and pellets qualified somewhere in the supply chain.
Where converter and brand demand stands today: the recycled-plastic commitments analysis.
From the GHD Americas newsroom archive. Originally shared on January 11, 2021.
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