{"id":18080,"date":"2021-10-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/12\/mead-johnson-nutrition-hong-kong-launches-citywide-can-recycling-incentive-scheme\/"},"modified":"2021-10-12T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:00:00","slug":"mead-johnson-nutrition-hong-kong-launches-citywide-can-recycling-incentive-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/12\/mead-johnson-nutrition-hong-kong-launches-citywide-can-recycling-incentive-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Mead Johnson Nutrition Hong Kong Launches Citywide Can Recycling Incentive Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 12 October 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meadjohnson.com.hk\/\">Mead&#13;<br \/>\nJohnson Nutrition Hong Kong<\/a> (&#8220;Mead Johnson&#8221;) partners with 24-hour online shopping&#13;<br \/>\nmall, HKTVmall under Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited (&#8220;HKTVmall&#8221;) and&#13;<br \/>\nthe World Green Organisation (&#8220;WGO&#8221;) again to&#13;<br \/>\nlaunch the largest-scale &#8220;We CAN Protect the Future&#8221; Formula Cans Recycling Program&#13;<br \/>\nin Hong Kong. Following the success of its pilot program launched earlier this&#13;<br \/>\nyear at the 6 collection points at HKTVmall O2O shops, Mead Johnson has&#13;<br \/>\nupgraded and extended the program coverage to 35 collection points across Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong, and team up with parents to build a cleaner and more sustainable world&#13;<br \/>\nfor our future generations, nurturing their best start in life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/185529\/PRVisial1E.JPG#image-185529\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From now until 24&#13;<br \/>\nDecember 2021, citizens can return cleaned formula cans from all brands to any&#13;<br \/>\nof the 35 designated HKTVmall O2O shops across Hong Kong and redeem an&#13;<br \/>\ne-voucher (HKTVmall HK$400 Mead Johnson selected products or HK$50 Dettol&#13;<br \/>\nselected products) for each successful return. <sup>[1]<\/sup>&#13;<br \/>\nAll collected formula cans will be processed at a local recycling plant and&#13;<br \/>\nturned into recyclable molten metal. The entire recycling process is supervised&#13;<br \/>\nby the WGO to ensure all recycled cans will be transformed appropriately into recycled&#13;<br \/>\nmaterial to reduce environmental burden and promote green economy in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To encourage active&#13;<br \/>\nparticipation in the program and further enhance environmental awareness of the&#13;<br \/>\npublic, Mead Johnson and the WGO will also organise parent-child formula cans&#13;<br \/>\nupcycling workshops at different shopping malls from October to December 2021.&#13;<br \/>\nThe workshops will bring children their first environmental protection&#13;<br \/>\nexperience. The workshops expect to cover approximately 300 participants.&#13;<br \/>\nFurther details will be announced. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pilot program&#13;<br \/>\nlaunched by Mead Johnson at the beginning of 2021 received overwhelming&#13;<br \/>\nresponses from the public and was successful in promoting the importance of cans&#13;<br \/>\nrecycling among over 50,000 parents. More than 1,500 formula cans were&#13;<br \/>\ncollected and recycled within a short period of time through 6 HKTVmall O2O shops.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mead Johnson has been&#13;<br \/>\nworking side by side with parents to safeguard our environment and address&#13;<br \/>\nsocial issues in the city for many years, guided by its mission to nourish the&#13;<br \/>\nbest start in life for our next generation,&#8221; said Mr. Pankaj Agarwal, General&#13;<br \/>\nManager, Hong Kong, Taiwan &amp; Cross-Border of Mead Johnson Nutrition (Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong) Limited. &#8220;Our pilot program achieved great success by establishing a&#13;<br \/>\nconvenient and reliable one-stop recycling channel for consumers. Through our&#13;<br \/>\npartnership with HKTVmall and the WGO, we endeavour to optimise parents&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nrecycling experience by enhancing the program&#8217;s accessibility through extended&#13;<br \/>\nHKTVmall O2O network, encouraging parents to recycle and help build a&#13;<br \/>\nsustainable future together.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Jelly Zhou, Chief&#13;<br \/>\nExecutive Officer (Hong Kong) at Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited, added,&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;HKTVmall has been a strong advocate for sustainable shopping. We are pleased&#13;<br \/>\nto team up with Mead Johnson and the WGO again to launch this meaningful&#13;<br \/>\nrecycling scheme. Through the addition of O2O shops as collection points, we encourage&#13;<br \/>\nthe public to integrate waste reduction and recycling into daily life and&#13;<br \/>\nenhance their environmental awareness. We will continue to fulfill our social&#13;<br \/>\nresponsibility through corporate partnerships to bring positive impacts on our&#13;<br \/>\ncommunity.&#8221; HKTVmall encourages citizens&#8217; participation in the recycling&#13;<br \/>\nprogram by offering 35 collection points across Hong Kong under its O2O&#13;<br \/>\nnetwork.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. William Yu, Founder&#13;<br \/>\n&amp; Chief Executive Officer of the World Green Organisation, said &#8220;Corporations&#13;<br \/>\nhave a big role to play in sustainability. We are glad to see how Mead Johnson&#13;<br \/>\nis pioneering in formula cans recycling by promoting collaboration between&#13;<br \/>\nretailer and green group and expanding its recycling network. This program is one&#13;<br \/>\nof the role models for sustainability development in Hong Kong.&#8221; The WGO acts&#13;<br \/>\nas advisor for the program, providing professional advice for improving the can&#13;<br \/>\nrecycling mechanism and environmental education. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We CAN Protect the&#13;<br \/>\nFuture&#8221; Formula Cans Recycling Program runs every Monday and Wednesday from 6&#13;<br \/>\nOctober to 24 December 2021 at 35 designated HKTVmall O2O shops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/185536\/PRVisual2E.JPG#image-185536\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For&#13;<br \/>\nmore details, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Bzmej8\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Bzmej8<\/a> <\/p>\n<div><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\"\/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p><a name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> The&#13;<br \/>\nFormula Cans Recycling Program runs every Monday and Wednesday from 6 October&#13;<br \/>\nto 24 December 2021 at 35 designated HKTVmall O2O shops. Participants can&#13;<br \/>\nredeem an e-voucher for every successful return of a cleaned formula can, up to&#13;<br \/>\nfour e-vouchers per day. Distribution of e-vouchers may vary depending on&#13;<br \/>\navailability at different shops. E-vouchers are available on a first-come, first-served&#13;<br \/>\nbasis while stocks last and check with the on-duty staff for details on collection&#13;<br \/>\nday. Offers are subject to terms and conditions and can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3mmvu3x\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3mmvu3x<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-12\/98603\/mead-johnson-nutrition-hong-kong-launches-citywide-can-recycling-incentive-scheme\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 12 October 2021 &#8211; Mead&#13; Johnson Nutrition Hong Kong (&#8220;Mead Johnson&#8221;) partners with 24-hour online shopping&#13; mall, HKTVmall under Hong Kong Technology Venture Company Limited (&#8220;HKTVmall&#8221;) and&#13; the World Green Organisation (&#8220;WGO&#8221;) again to&#13; launch the largest-scale &#8220;We CAN Protect the Future&#8221; Formula Cans Recycling Program&#13; in Hong &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}