Sustainable packaging for consumer products

US8083064B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Emily Charlotte Boswell · Cincinnati, US
• Dimitris Ioannis Collias · Mason, US
• Robert Earl Magness · Lebanon, US
• Dean Zimmerman · Sharonville, US
• John Moncrief Layman · Monroe, US
• John Andrew McDaniel · Middletown, US
• Holly Balasubramanian Rauckhorst · Livingston, US
• Andrew Benjamin Watson · Sharonville, US
• Anthony James Burns · Sharonville, US
• Brandon Matthew Dunphy · Cincinnati, US
• Andrew E. Neltner · Loveland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 2011
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2011
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/1352
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a sustainable article substantially free of virgin petroleum-based compounds that includes a container, a cap, and a label, each made from renewable and/or recycled materials. The article has a shelf life of at least two years, and is itself entirely recyclable. The container can include polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, or polypropylene. The cap can include polypropylene or polyethylene. The label can include polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene, or paper.