This document summarizes a collaboration between Nestlé Waters North America, WM-Green Ops, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, and Greenopolis to create a closed-loop recycling system for plastic water bottles. The system includes a brand called re-source made with 25% recycled plastic, in-store recycling programs at Whole Foods Markets, consumer education and rewards for recycling, and building infrastructure to process recycled bottles into new products. The collaboration aims to demonstrate the value of recycling and change consumer behavior to increase recycling rates in the US.

1. Toward Closing the Loop in the Bottled Beverage Industry Andrius Dapkus, Nestlé Waters North America Paul Ligon, WM-Green Ops, LLC James Ewell, McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry Anthony Zolezzi, Greenopolis

4. Our Challenge Can we create the first closed-loop system for plastic water bottles?

14. CPG Consumer info and package data Consumer rewards & incentives ECO STATION automated recapture GreenOps inclusion on packaging 1 Consumer purchase, consumption, disposal choice 2 End-of-life product recapture, data collection and tracking 3 re-source /GreenOps Process Flow Think Green Rewards Pickup , backhaul and commodity processing & support 4 Beneficial end-of-life reuse such as recycled, reprocessed products 5