Improving recycling systems can only be done through partnership across sectors.
Juan Bonilla, Director, Personal Health Care Sustainability of Procter & Gamble, is tackling the recyclability of small-format objects and packaging, from travel-sized bottles and toothbrushes to medicine bottles.
While the material may indeed be recyclable, the facilities that recover them often lack the technology to appropriately capture and sort them. They can literally fall through the cracks.
That’s why Juan and his team are working with The Sustainability Consortium to support research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that aims to keep small plastic products inside the recycling chain.
The goal is to create a prototype sorting technology to bring to recycling facilities for large-scale testing and commercial development.
“Our goal is to leverage P&G’s scale to collaborate with other companies to drive industry-wide, systemic solutions,” said Juan.
Juan exemplifies the role of a sustainability champion, aligning with P&G’s Ambition 2030 goals to invent and partner for a future where less is wasted and more is recycled.
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