Kroger and Walgreens are teaming up with UPS and waste management firm TerraCycle on a grocery delivery system.
With Loop, brands create their own product-specific, reusable packaging, such as this steel Häagen-Dazs ice cream container. By Taylor Telford Taylor Telford Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow May 23 at 12:32 PM Kroger and Walgreens are teaming up with UPS and waste management firm TerraCycle to combat the scourge of packaging and food waste with an innovative grocery delivery system that takes its cues from the milkman.
Customers can shop online through Loop’s website, where items cost roughly the same as what they would in a traditional store. Orders are delivered in specially designed Loop tote bags, and each product has bespoke packaging of its own: glass jars for Nature’s Path granola and metal containers for Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
Loop requires a small deposit for its containers, which is refunded once the packaging is safely returned. The company also will provide recycling services for items that have long been condemned to the trash, such as diapers, pens and razor blades. Then there’s packaging. From 1960 to 2015, the amount of packaging waste in the United States surged 185 percent, from 27 million tons to nearly 78 million tons. Containers and packaging make up 23 percent of landfill waste, according to a 2015 report from the Environmental Protection Agency. Finding a solution for plastic waste has become more urgent since 2018, when China announced it would no longer import and recycle other nations’ plastics.
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