Bway Corp.’s new Eco-Pail™ carried a lot of weight with judges, winning an award for Secondary/Large-Format Packaging. The 5-gal pail, which so far has been used with paint, lubricants, food, and adhesives since being introduced in April 2009, affords a number of sustainability advantages over a traditional high-density polyethylene pail. And ultimately, it provides a cradle-to-cradle alternative to a package that typically is disposed of in a landfill.
Notes Bway’s Greener Package Awards entry form: “The goal was to develop a pail package that reduced the amount of raw material required to make the product while providing an overall package that could be recycled and meet all current performance standards as established by the industry and customers.”
The result is an HDPE pail containing 37% post-consumer recycled resin that uses 8% less material than a standard HDPE pail, taking 1.4 million lb of HDPE out of the supply chain each year. Minimal ribs molded within the container body provide stacking strength and allow for a reduced sidewall thickness. The pail is manufactured using Bway’s exclusive TwinShot molding technology—a co-injection process with a single extruder. It produces a pail that has an outer core made from virgin HDPE and an internal core of PCR. Bway says the TwinShot process improves pail performance and allows for the use of up to 50% recycled resin.
