Name
Beyond the Landfill with Once Upon a Farm: Creative Solutions for Complex Package Recycling
Date & Time
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location Name
Ballroom
Description

Recyclops is a recycling innovator, with a mission to find sustainable solutions for package recycling, regardless of location and material type, by leveraging community and technology. In 2022 alone, Recyclops diverted nearly 2 million pounds from landfills each month, helping create a circular economy.

In early 2023 Recyclops began partnering with Once Upon a Farm, the next generation childhood nutrition company, offering organic, farm-fresh foods for babies and kids. With industry legend John Foraker and actress and philanthropist Jennifer Garner, Once Upon a Farm had grown the company to sell in 13,000+ stores nationwide.

Unfortunately, as they reached for sustainability, Once Upon a Farm quickly found that their multi-layer pouches were too complex for most recycling facilities to process, and that existing solutions lacked transparency. Recyclops found an inventive solution---using a Pouch Mail-Back Program to recover the packaging, Recyclops turned the pouches into rock aggregate. That rock aggregate is now used to make light-weight concrete that is both stronger than traditional concrete, and has an additional 40-year life-span.

Listen as Recyclops and Once Upon a Farm discuss their partnership to collect and recycle multi-layer pouches.

Ryan Smith