rpet

Multi-food pots are a versatile food-to-go packaging solution which cater for a wide range of dishes. With a maximum of 7% plastic in the bases, Colpac’s new range of multi-food pots comfortably meets the OPRL guidelines for recyclability for 2023 and beyond.

“While our Qbo capsules are still made of PP, this is now produced from 70% renewable raw materials instead of virgin fossil oil as is normally the case for coffee capsules,” said Marius-Konstantin Wiche, development manager, capsule & innovation at Tchibo. “This makes the entire Qbo range – containing sustainably grown Qbo coffee brewed in Qbo machines – one of the most sustainable capsule systems on the market.”

rPET is now available in the following Berry thermoformed pots and containers ranges - CombiPac®, CombiRound®, SuperLight®, Spoon-in-lid and DeliPac as well as the company’s injection stretch blow moulded PET range.

One of PET’s major benefits is that the material is recyclable. The manufacture of containers in rPET not only cuts down on the use of virgin materials but also provides a circular solution since the rPET container itself can also be recycled where systems are available.

Kremsmünster, Austria (March 2022). Greiner Packaging’s stated aim is to keep plastic circulating in the economy for as long as possible. To this end, the packaging specialists look to work together with their customers to create new packaging solutions that can be recycled themselves and, ideally, contain recycled material, too. This was also the declared goal of Harvest Moon, and the plastic cups in the new cardboard-plastic solutions for its fermented yogurt alternatives are produced from 100% r-PET, making them super sustainable.

Sustainability in action

ORLEN Deutschland GmbH has announced that starting on 1 March, all star and ORLEN’s service stations will start using a new single-use, 100% organic, both recyclable and compostable tableware. In addition, rePET bottles made from 100% recycled PET bottles will be phased in over the coming weeks for all star own-brand mineral water and apple spritzer.

Inspired in name by the revered Inca goddess Pachamama, Packamama offers packaging protecting Mother Earth. It encompasses the packaging supply and bottling elements to third parties previously handled by Garçon Wines, including their climate-friendly eco-flat wine bottles which are flat to save space and made from 100% recycled PET to save weight and energy. Superior shape and best-in-class material choices help slash greenhouse gas emissions to address the wine industry’s carbon footprint hotspot of round, glass bottles.

Kao Corporation is implementing field testing aimed at recycling used cosmetics bottles that have been collected, and transforming them back into new bottles.
 
The goal of the project is to achieve material recycling of cosmetics bottles that are made from plastic, and eventually realize plastic circularity in society.
 

Esterform has recently installed in-house PET blending facilities at its specialist preform manufacturing site in Leeds. This new in-house facility offers greater flexibility with regard to the percentages of RPET used in manufacture. In order to provide the capacity to store greater quantities of raw material and to house the new blends we have also invested in new silo capacity.

The companies say that PET shelf-ready packaging, which is used in UK supermarkets to transport products, is usually downcycled into non-food applications. The new ‘tray to tray’ initiative will involve Faerch collecting secondary PET and using its advanced recycling process to make new primary food contact packaging, including pots, tubs, and trays.