Taco Bell will start reusing hot sauce packs

Taco Bell will start reusing hot sauce packs

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That’s changing soon: the fast food chain is working with recycling company TerraCycle to give its parcels a “spicy second life that involves no landfill,” Taco Bell said in a press release.

Specific details about how the program will work have not been released. However, Taco Bell has revealed that the recycling trial program will be launched later this year and that participation will be simple and involve free delivery. Its ultimate goal is for the discarded gravy packs to have an “exciting future as something new.”

Taco Bell said it’s the first fast food brand to use TerraCycle, a company in New Jersey that helps large businesses grow greener. It worked with Procter & Gamble (PG), Unilever (UL) and Nestlé to help manufacture reusable packaging in place of disposable packages that end up in landfills.

In this case, it collects non-recyclable materials, melts them and transforms them into a hard plastic that can be recycled after use.

“In the food industry today, there is no solution available for recycling the flexible film packages that are so frequently used for spices,” Liz Matthews, Taco Bell’s global head of food innovation, said in the release.

Taco Bell hopes the packaging used by its customers will be fully “recyclable, compostable or reusable” by 2024 at all of its 7,000 locations worldwide. It uses this pilot program to shape its future recycling efforts.

Last year, Taco Bell claimed to have beaten its popular Mexican Pizza because of the packaging, which consumes more than 7 million pounds of paper per year.

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