BERRY Global has announced that its UK refuse sack business has launched a new range of high strength refuse sacks, manufactured from recycled plastics.
The Ruffies name is already an established Berry Global brand in the US, which is now being introduced into the UK market. The sacks, manufactured at Berry’s facility in Heanor, Derbyshire, are produced from ‘extremely tough’ agricultural plastic waste, collected from farms in the UK and Ireland.
Manufactured on multilayer extrusion lines, they are said to create ‘high quality and robust’ sacks that are ‘extremely puncture-resistant’.
The used agricultural material that provides the recycled content is collected via the national Agricultural Plastic Environment (APE UK) scheme. This coordinates the development of a national collection and recycling infrastructure to support the responsible handling of used farm plastics.
“This is another example of how plastics can contribute to the circular economy, with products such as sileage wrap and greenhouse film produced by our Berry Agriculture business being collected and reprocessed into material to create our new Ruffie sacks,” said Berry refuse sales director Lorcan Mekitarian.
The RecyClass recycled content-certified bags are available in Tie Top and Tie Handle versions. They are being sold in Sainsbury’s.
