Recycled Polypropylene Sticks

Amcor has unveiled a new partnership with French sports retailer Decathlon, showcasing how advanced recycling can be integrated directly into consumer-ready products. As part of the collaboration, Amcor has developed two mono-material stick applicators for Decathlon—an anti-chafing stick and a sunscreen stick—each made with 87% recycled polypropylene (PP). The updated packaging delivers a 17% reduction in CO₂ emissions compared with virgin resin.

The material powering this innovation comes from Amcor’s CleanStream™ technology, a proprietary recycling process that turns post-consumer PP waste into high-purity, food-grade recycled resin. Operated out of Amcor’s facility in Leamington Spa, England, CleanStream can recycle nearly 40% of the nation’s sorted PP waste stream and has access to 50,000 tons of kerbside-collected PP annually.

The incoming waste stream primarily consists of pots, tubs, and trays, which CleanStream isolates using a blend of machine learning algorithms and optical sorting systems, achieving over 95% purity.

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