What Will You Do with 180,000 Bottles? #entrepreneur #businessideas #shorts #recycling

19 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A Moringa company's carbon audit revealed packaging, not shipping, was its biggest emissions source. They switched to recycled plastic and now upcycle 180,000 water bottles yearly, becoming the largest PCR plastic buyer in the US.

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So we did a carbon audit a few years ago. I thought our biggest use of carbon was going to be, you know, sending shiploads of Moringa from Uganda to California. It's not, it was actually our packaging. So we transitioned all of our packaging to be post-consumer recycled plastic. So we're basically upcycling about 180,000 water bottles per year, which is, yeah, pretty exciting. And we are We're the single largest purchaser of PCR, post-consumer recycled plastic, one of the leading green printers in the country. So we're, you know, kind of at the, like, bleeding edge of, like, how do we get more sustainable packaging out there?