Why Does Zinzino Use Plastic Bottles Instead of Glass?


Glass vs PET bottles:
Which of these two are more environment friendly can be argued probably into eternity. So it comes down to which of the pro’s and con’s you put most weight on, and which becomes your deciding factors.

For Zinzino the main things are to have a user friendly bottle and one that is easy to handle on the way to the factory, for the workers in the factory and on the way out to the customer.

Since we ship product by mail, weight and strength are important to us. PET is light and strong, and does not break. Thus, the bottles can be packed lightly on their way to the factory. Low weight uses less energy for transport and makes handling easy all the way through production. Finished bottles can be packed in simple shrink wrapped six-packs, and they don’t need secondary packing in boxes like glass do. On their way from the warehouse to the customer, packing is also light and simple, but strong, and failure in packing is extremely rare.

PET is among the easiest recycleable plastics. At present the recycling of dark coloured PET is not very much developed, but this is something that will change in the near future. Zinzino is following the development to be able to switch to recycled PET when the quality and time is right.


rPET:
PET plastic is among the easiest recyclable plastics. PET is used to a very large extent for food and drink. Especially water and other drinks in clear PET. For this segment there are good recycling schemes, even with recycling percentage targets in the EU. But it is a “closed circuit” recycling, i.e. clear PET from drinks bottles are recycled into clear PET for drinks bottles.

We need dark PET for our oil bottles to preserve the product. But for dark PET bottles there are not so good recycling schemes in place yet. So dark PET bottles from recycled materials, so called rPET, are not so easy to come by with the right quality, and in the large quantities we need.

For Zinzino quality of the product comes first, but at present rPET is not a realistic choice.
No doubt will this improve with time and dark rPET will be an obvious choice.


Click here  to see our certificate, Packaging Declaration of Compliance, for the bottles we use.
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