Welcome to our series aimed at spotlighting the NLCRC members and partners.

Discover how these companies are addressing pressing challenges around environmental sustainability issues, such as energy, greenhouse gas emission reduction, packaging, product recyclability, and what inspires each of them to include lubricant packaging recovery and recycling into their ESG objectives and how they hope to make an impact in the lubricant value chain.

Company Name: RPM eco

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RPM eco is by far the largest and most advanced collector and recycler in the management of contaminated empty plastic containers.

What are your long-term sustainability goals and how do they relate to petroleum and automotive packaging? 

We support companies in their circular economy actions by taking charge of the entire environmental cycle linked to their used plastic containers. 

From collection to repurposing using mechanical recycling - allowing the use of PCR material in new containers - we help them finally close the loop on their packaging.

Because of the unique services we provide, RPM eco plays a key role in ESG programs. Specifically, unlike other companies, we collect volumes of any size -large or small. The ability to manage multiple, small volumes is unique to our company. Moreover, our mechanical recycling process uses industrial wastewater as a cleaning agent. The result: we produce a clean 100% PCR resin ready to be used in the production of packaging materials.

At RPM eco, we believe that our world is a reflection of who we are. Everything we do has an effect on our fellow humans, on our economy, on our planet. Some people like to wash their hands of things. We prefer to get ours dirty. We do this by working cleanly, intelligently, and together. 

How does your NLCRC membership help your company to meet your sustainability goals and commitments?

Combining RPM eco’s expertise with the efforts of the NLCRC supports the mutual goal of reducing environmental impact and developing sustainable solutions across the value chain.

What do you value most about the collaborative nature and your membership with NLCRC?

“By joining the NLCRC, we partner with a group of companies ready to support packaging circularity and thus find a path towards our goal of remaking a bottle of oil with a bottle of oil. A group of leaders ready to invest and innovate in true solutions for post-consumer recovery and recycling of plastic lubricant containers..” ~ Dominic Payette, President

About NLCRC 

The National Lubricant Container Recycling Coalition, or “NLCRC,” is an industry-led coalition funded by a committed consortium of value chain stakeholders focused on establishing solutions for recovery and recycling of packaging for petroleum-based and related products utilized in transportation and industrial applications.

Members include Berry Global, Castrol (part of bp Group), Chevron, CKS Packaging Inc., Graham Packaging, Nexus Circular, Pennzoil - Quaker State Company, Petroleum Packaging Council, Plastipak Packaging, RPM eco, Safety-Kleen, and Valvoline.

For more information, visit https://www.nationallcrc.com