Learn how Danone is impacting the circular economy

At Danone, we want to offer nutritious, high-quality food and drinks in packaging that is 100% circular, keeping materials in use and out of nature!

As of 2017, 86% of our total packaging (and 77% of our plastic packaging) is reusable, recyclable, or compostable, and over 50% of our water volumes are sold in reusable jugs. We have ongoing initiatives to implement eco-design principles for packaging, like evian’s pilot program to eliminate non-recyclable shrink film by using specially designed adhesive and tape handles in order to keep water bottles together.

Our goal for 2025 is for every piece of packaging—from bottle caps to yogurt cups—to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable. At the same time, we are working to design our products to optimize material use and eliminate waste. This means developing new alternative delivery or reuse models, while also taking action to eliminate items that are problematic (in that they are unlikely to be recycled) or unnecessary (in that they do not bring additional value to the product or its protection). 

To this end, we are planning to introduce alternatives to plastic straws, which we will pilot with our Indonesian brand AQUA in 2019.