Food Grade Plastic Made from Recycled Bottles
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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Richard Abel
posted on February 24th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
I am looking for food grade plastic bottles for my BBQ Sauce production. I really like the thought of recycled bottles. This is an add in its self, we are going to have a Co-Packer produce it and attach labels etc. We will then sell the sauce ourselves until we get the funding to go national. Can you help, I would also like it if they were made in the USA, keep the jobs at home sort of thing ya know, thank you Richard Abel
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