Unilever Innovates Durable, Reusable and Refillable Packaging to Help Eliminate Waste

Unilever today unveiled reusable packaging innovations across nine of its brands, including four new product formats. The new products will be trialled on Looptm, a global, first-of-its-kind, waste-free shopping system announced today.

Bringing together a coalition of consumer goods companies, along with international recycling leader TerraCycle, Looptm is an innovative new business model for premium durable packaging which is delivered directly to the consumer, returned and refilled. The platform also offers the opportunity to work with others at scale to test reuse models and shift consumer behavior, which will help make circular packaging systems commercially viable.

Premium skincare brand REN Clean Skincare, Hellmann's, Love Beauty and Planet, Love Home and Planet and Seventh Generation will trial new reusable packaging made from aluminum and glass.

Three Unilever brands will also be the first to test new formats within the Looptm system. World leading deodorant brands Dove, Degree and AXE, together reaching over one billion people globally every year, will test a premium, refillable deodorant stick called minimtm. Made from stainless steel, the design is minimal, compact and sustainable, offering a new consumer experience without any unnecessary materials. Dependent on usage, the product will last on average one month, with the packaging designed to last at least 100 cycles. This means that each pack is expected to last about eight years, with the potential to save up to 100 packs from being thrown away.

Unilever's participation in Looptm complements its existing efforts to create a plastic system that works and a packaging system that is truly circular by design. In 2017, Unilever committed to all of its plastic packaging being reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. Good progress has been made against these targets, with absolute packaging volumes flat since 2010, despite the business growing significantly over this period. However, Unilever is determined to further reduce its use of single-use plastics.

Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever said: "We want to put an end to the current "take-make-dispose" culture and are committed to taking big steps towards designing our products for re-use. We're proud to be a founding partner of Loop, which will deliver our much-loved brands in packaging which is truly circular by design."

About Unilever North America

Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Beauty & Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods & Refreshment products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2.5 billion consumers a day. In the United States and Canada, the portfolio includes brand icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Degree, Dollar Shave Club, Dove, Hellmann's, Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000, Lipton, Love Beauty and Planet, Magnum, Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond's, Popsicle, Pure Leaf, Q-tips, Seventh Generation, Simple, Sir Kensington's, St. Ives, Suave, Talenti Gelato & Sorbetto, TAZO, TIGI, TRESemmé and Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies. Unilever employs approximately 9,000 people across North America ? generating more than $10 billion in sales in 2017.

Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan underpins the company's strategy and commits to:

• Helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being by 2020.
• Halving the environmental impact of our products by 2030.
• Enhancing the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020.

The USLP creates value by driving growth and trust, eliminating costs and reducing risks. Globally, the company's sustainable living brands are grew 46% faster than the rest of the business and delivered more than 70% of the company's growth in 2017.

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