Waste Diversion Elevated Enviro Ratings:
Kellogg’s Corn Pops
Elevated Enviro reviews everyday products and what of them can be diverted from the landfill after use, waste diversion. Plastic waste piling up in our oceans and landfills is becoming a massive environmental issue. A lack of recycling markets, outdated sorting technology and products that use a mix of materials is contributing to this. Let’s see how Kellogg’s Corn Pops stacks up.
The box is completely paper and can be placed in most recycling bins or bags, this will be turned into another product. The cereal bag inside is made of an unknown plastic grade and quality, as a result this can not be recycled in most markets. What would help if Kellogg’s would clearly post the grade on the package this would allow sorting facilities to determine what it is.
Technically all plastic is recyclable but certain grades can’t be because the facilities to shred the plastic and melt it down to turn it into plastic pellets for remanufactrue don’t exist. Part of the reason they don’t exist is because a lack of demand from not knowing what grades these plastics are. The more grades are clearly posted the more opportunity they have to be recycled.
The rest of the cereal is a food product and can be placed in a compost bin if unfinished.
We give this product a 2 out of 5.