Indiana-based packaging company Berry Global last year boosted recycled resin to 5.5pc of the company's total resin purchase on rising use of post-consumer resin (PCR).
Combined PCR and post-industrial recycled resin (PIR) purchases rose by 0.7 percentage points in 2024 from 4.8pc in 2023, the company reported on Tuesday.
PCR resin purchases increased by 43pc and accounted for 5.1pc of the Berry's total resin purchases in 2024, up from 3.6pc in 2023. The company's PIR purchases fell to 0.4pc from 1.2pc in 2023.
Berry is still 4.9 percentage points away from its 2025 goal of achieving 10pc post-consumer recycled content across its single-use consumer goods portfolio.
The company's bioplastics purchasing rose to 1.5pc of total resin, up from 0.6pc in 2023.
Including internally recycled resin and bioplastics, Berry's overall usage of circular plastics rose to 11pc in 2024, up from 9.7pc in 2023. The company aims to use 30pc circular plastics in its consumer packaging by 2030.
