Food Grade Plastic Made from Recycled Bottles
by Francine Hardaway
Published on June 30th, 2008
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Closed Loop Recycling in London has opened a plant to recycle plastic soft drink and milk bottles into useful packaging.
CLR will take 35,000 tons of recovered plastic bottles, including milk and soft drink bottles and turn them back into recycled raw material for new food and drink packaging.
Early customers for recycled food grade plastic from the plant include Coca-Cola, Marks & Spencer, Nampak Plastics Europe and Solo Cup (Europe).
The industry and consumer are now viewing recycled plastic in a completely new light. Each recycled plastic bottle reduces the bottle’s carbon footprint by around 25 percent.
CLR will turn waste that may have been previously exported to developing countries at low value or discarded in landfills into new material suitable for food and drink packaging. This creates a circle of constantly recycled plastic, also known as the “Closed Loop” philosophy.
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