BPI forms packaging recycling partnership with clothing firm

The two companies are offering a cradle-to-grave system which will see the packaging created from recycled material and then once used recycled again.

Based on-line, equop is a “fair trade organic clothing company” which aims to bring “street credibility to responsible trade and living”. Every order of clothing from the equop website is dispatched in two recycled polythene envelopes, one to protect the product and the other is the outer shipping bag.

Once the customer has received the goods they can place the shipping bag into the empty inner bag and send it, via freepost, to BPI which recycles the bags into bin liners and waste sacks.

Andrew Green, managing director of BPI recycling, said: “We are delighted to be working with such an environmentally-responsible company as Equop. We commend their challenging initiative which both reduces the packaging they use to an absolute minimum and provides the opportunity for every one of their customers to recycle close to 100% of that packaging.”

A spokesman for Equop explained the advantages of recycling polythene: “Every tonne of recycled polythene produced saves around 1.8 tonnes of crude oil. New polythene requires three times as much energy, uses eight times as much water and generates two and a half times as much carbon dioxide, three times as much sulphur dioxide and twice as much nitrous oxide than recycled polythene.”