05 Aug 2020 --- Personal care giant Henkel is set to make its entire Oral Care tube portfolio fully recyclable by early 2021. Produced by Henkel’s packaging supplier Albéa, the Greenleaf tube-making technology uses a single-blown film, thus significantly reducing the product’s CO2 footprint. The Greenleaf tubes are recognized as technically recyclable within the existing HDPE bottles recycling stream by the US Association of Plastic Recyclers and Suez.Circpack in Europe. Traditionally, the multi-layer construction of toothpaste tubes poses serious challenges to their recyclability. Henkel’s transition to the new tubes will be pioneered by the Spanish toothpaste brand Licor del Polo.
