The ARL is much more than just a packaging label. It offers big benefits – for the environment, for your customers and for your business.
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- Cut through the recycling label confusion: Feel confident you are providing accurate and transparent recycling information.
- Take action on sustainability: Demonstrate your business is serious about sustainability with a tangible, practical commitment.
- Drive sales: Half of Australians are more likely to buy products that use the ARL.
- Avoid greenwashing: Feel confident you aren’t making false or misleading environmental claims.
- Meet supply chain demand: Coles, Woolworths, and ALDI have committed for all Own Brand products to carry the ARL by 2025.
Be a sustainability leader in your field with the ARL.
Research shows that:
- Customers love the ARL: 75% of Australians agree the ARL is a great idea and want to see it on all packaging!
- Customers value recycling: More than three-quarters of Australians think recycling is the best way they can help the environment.
- Customers want more recycling advice: Nearly half of Australians worry they aren't recycling correctly. Customers want more information about how to recycle correctly and packaging is the first place they look for advice.
- Customers recycle better with the ARL: Australians recycle more accurately when the ARL is available.
Using the ARL on your packaging is one of the simplest ways you can reduce your brand's environmental impact:
- Packaging is made from valuable, finite resources. By helping customers put their packaging in the right bin, the ARL ensures packaging materials can be processed into new products.
- Correct recycling also reduces the amount of packaging that enters landfills or ends up as litter.
