Recycled, at virgin price.
Propacks exists because of one decision: recycled plastic bottles should cost the same as virgin plastic bottles. That decision is our entire sustainability strategy. Everything else follows from it.
The premium
tax.
The packaging industry treats post-consumer recycled content as a premium product. Brands that want to do the right thing pay more for it. Brands that cannot afford the premium stay on virgin plastic.
Sustainable packaging stays a luxury for companies with large budgets, while everyone else keeps buying new plastic because the economics force them to.
We spent two years solving that problem. Our proprietary formulation delivers PCR bottles at virgin-equivalent pricing with virgin-equivalent quality. No sustainability tax. No aesthetic compromise. No reason left to choose virgin over recycled.
From landfill,
to bottle.
Every bottle in our catalog contains 35% or 50% post-consumer recycled content. A consumer used that plastic. A recycling program collected it. A processor sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed it into resin. A factory manufactured it into a new bottle.
It is not industrial scrap. It is not trim waste from a factory floor. It is material that would have gone to landfill.
When there is no cost penalty for choosing recycled, more brands choose recycled. When more brands choose recycled, more post-consumer plastic gets collected and reprocessed instead of buried.
Not a pledge. Not a roadmap. How we operate today, on every order, at every quantity.
Available across the catalog.
Aligned with SB 54 thresholds.
Virgin-equivalent pricing on every SKU.
Honesty over
greenwashing.
We sell plastic bottles. We do not pretend plastic is a perfect material. We do not claim that buying PCR bottles solves ocean pollution or eliminates packaging waste.
We are honest about what PCR packaging is, and what it is not.
PCR reduces demand. It does not eliminate plastic.
Recycled content cuts the call for new petroleum-based resin. It does not stop plastic production.
Recyclable, but only where infrastructure exists.
PCR bottles are recyclable again after use (PET is resin code 1, HDPE is resin code 2, both accepted curbside). Recyclability depends on local infrastructure, not just the bottle.
Overseas manufacturing has a cost.
Multiple supplier partners manufacture our bottles overseas and ship them to our Los Angeles warehouse. We offset the logistics impact by enabling brands to use recycled material they would otherwise not afford.
We do not sell compostables or bioplastics.
We sell recycled plastic bottles that work in existing supply chains and recycling infrastructure. We will not pretend otherwise.
The packaging industry has enough greenwashing. We would rather tell you exactly what our bottles are made of and let you decide.
Specs published.
No NDA.
Every product page on our site lists the PCR content percentage, the resin type, and the material certifications. You do not need to email us, request a spec sheet, or get on a call to find out what you are buying.
For brands preparing for California SB 54, our 50% PCR bottles align with the 2030 recycled content threshold for plastic beverage containers.
Brands in other states with emerging EPR legislation (New York, Oregon, Colorado, Maine) can use the same products to prepare ahead of their own compliance timelines.
Global Recycled Standard, third-party verified chain of custody.
Quality management systems audited by accredited bodies.
Food-contact compliant options for food and beverage applications.
Content documentation available on request for retail buyers and regulatory filings.
Design for
end of life.
A bottle with recycled content is not automatically easy to recycle. Recyclability depends on the full package design: what the bottle is made of, what the cap is made of, whether the label adhesive interferes with reprocessing, and whether the materials are compatible in a single recycling stream.
We stock standard resin families (PET, HDPE, PP) that are widely accepted in curbside recycling programs across the United States.
We are actively working on mono-material packaging where bottle and closure share the same resin, eliminating the contamination problem that mixed-material packages create at recycling facilities.
We also publish educational content on our blog about recycling infrastructure, material compatibility, and packaging design choices that affect end-of-life outcomes. Informed brands make better packaging decisions, and better packaging decisions produce less waste.
pounds of plastic, diverted.
One brand switching from virgin to 50% PCR on a 10,000-unit order diverts approximately 200 pounds of post-consumer plastic from landfill. Multiply that across hundreds of brands ordering thousands of units, and the volume becomes significant.
The real impact is not in any single order. It is in removing the price barrier that prevented the switch in the first place.
Every brand that discovers they can buy recycled at the same price as virgin is a brand that never goes back. That compounding effect, one purchasing decision at a time, is how the industry actually changes.
We do not publish carbon offset numbers or lifecycle analyses on this page because we have not commissioned an independent LCA. When we do, we will publish the methodology alongside the results. Until then, we state what we know: using recycled resin requires less energy than producing virgin resin, and keeping plastic in circulation reduces the volume entering landfill.
Active projects,
not promises.
We update this page as each becomes available.
Mono-material packaging
PET bottles with PET closures, eliminating mixed-material contamination at recycling facilities.
Higher PCR content options
Exploring 75% and 100% PCR formulations that hold the quality and pricing standards we set at 35% and 50%.
Packaging take-back pilot
Investigating a return program for brands that want to close the loop on their own packaging, routing used bottles back into the PCR supply chain.
PCR jars & PETG bottles
Jars open up creams, balms, and solid formulations. PETG offers glass-like clarity with the durability and recyclability of plastic.