Recycling and packaging

As the nation’s favourite dairy brand we are committed to the protection and enhancement of the environment and as such we endeavour to ensure that you can recycle the packaging of our products. • Pots Yes in principle it is possible to recycle our pots. All of our pots are made of plastic. While there are many schemes available to recycle our bottles made of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), unfortunately there are very few household schemes to recycle the rigid plastics that are used for our pots. The plastic used in our yogurt pots is either Polystyrene (PS) or Polypropylene (PP).These are easily identified by the Mobius loop underneath that will have either a number or the shortened description of the material or both. We use PS for all our Corner products, Little Stars range, Müllerlight and Vitality. Müller Rice used PP because the product can be microwaved and all our transparent pots are PP also. Our Amoré yogurt uses a pot which is a composite of PS and paperboard and the two parts plastic and paper can be separated for easy recycling. • Bottles The bottles used for our delicious Vitality drink are made from High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). HDPE is often part of many kerbside collection schemes and readily recycled. • Lids Most of our lids (excluding Müller Corner and Little Stars range) are made from aluminium; therefore these can be recycled within aluminium recycling schemes. Aluminium cans and foil can be recycled in one of the cash for cans schemes throughout the UK, or they can be donated to help raise funds for different local charities and community groups. You can also give your aluminium to a local authority recycling scheme: most collect aluminium cans, and an increasing number operate foil schemes. It is important to ensure that the lids are washed prior to recycling to help ensure the quality of recycled material. For more information about recycling aluminium visit www.alupro.org.uk. Our Corner and multi-pack lids are made from a laminate of paper and PET, which has been metallised. This means unfortunately these lids can not be recycled. Laminates are only used where other materials that are able to be recycled cannot. • Sleeves Our sleeves are made from paper or board, therefore these are also recyclable within any paper / board recycling scheme. • Flow-wrap The plastic film that surrounds some of our Multi-packs is actually made from PP, this material is used in many applications around the house from bread wraps to biscuit packets and is used as it is tough enough to hold the pots together even at less than 0.5mm thick. Being PP film again whilst it can be recycled there are limited number of recycling facilities for this type of plastic.