We’re committed to ensuring all our packaging is recycle ready and work with local recycling programmes to divert waste streams from landfill.
As part of our commitment towards ensuring all our packaging is 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025 we’ve reviewed our packaging footprint and are investing in recycle-ready packaging materials. We’re also proactively working with our recycling partners to ensure all our packaging can be widely collected and recycled.
We’ve added a plant-based milk bottle to our Anchor Blue 2L range! This bottle is made from sugarcane, which is natural, renewable and sustainably sourced and is a great alternative to traditional bottles made from non-renewable sources like fossil fuels. Because sugarcane absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, the bottle has a low carbon footprint and is 100% kerbside recyclable.
In 2020 we launched our plant-based Anchor Blue 2L plastic milk bottle. This bottle is made from sugarcane, which is natural, renewable and sustainably sourced and is a great alternative to traditional bottles made from non-renewable sources like fossil fuels. Because sugarcane absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere as it grows, the bottle has a low carbon footprint and is 100% kerbside recyclable.*
Learn more about our Plant Based Bottle here
* Except Gore & Chatham Islands
We’ve also been involved in local pilot programmes working with Fence Post, Trees 4 Survival and Good Caps to help re-purpose our Anchor milk bottles into crates, fence posts & other materials:
Future Post
Future Post are a kiwi start up that is re-purposing our Anchor Milk bottles and other soft plastics into fence posts. Each fence post is made from 220 Anchor milk bottles, and 1700 plastic bags, creating a 1.8m fence post, which lasts up to 50 years!
Trees for Survival
Trees for Survival is a charitable trust which works with over 150 schools and local communities across New Zealand to grow and plant native trees along waterways and on erosion prone hillsides. Anchor donates used and damaged milk crates to house and grow native plant seedlings for its nature restoration programmes which provide an opportunity for school children to make a practical difference to their environment as well as learn about conservation, revegetation, wetland restoration and protecting stream quality.
The Good Caps
The Good Caps programme is an initiative supported by kiwi brands like Anchor to create a circular solution for caps and prevent them from going to landfill. The Pilot started with 12 Hawke’s Bay school’s which is being lead by Plastics NZ, to help recover and recycle plastic lids and metal caps while learning about the value of recyclable materials.
Will & Able
We’re excited to share that Aucklanders can now drop their empty Will&Able bottles into collection bins across select Z Energy sites, where they will be collected and reused. Anchor is a proud supporter of this partnership to reuse and recycle plastics.
