Loop
After a COVID-induced delay, the zero waste shopping platform Loop has launched in the UK (it already runs in France and the US). TerraCycle works with manufacturers like Heinz, Coca Cola, Unilever, Danone and Nivea, retailers like Tesco and logistics companies like DHL and DPD, to enable shoppers to purchase food, drink, health, beauty and cleaning products online and then to return the packaging – either from home using an online request for pick-up, or at one of the 2,500 DPD collection points. Tesco hopes this will help remove one billion pieces of plastic packaging from its UK stores by 2021.
— Wayne Visser
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