date:May 14, 2012
Continuum Recycling, the joint-venture between CCE and recycling firm, ECO Plastics will enable ECO Plastics to process 40,000t of recycled Polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) bottle-grade plastic per year. This will enable CCE to meet its target of making all plastic bottles with 25% rPET by the end of the year, said Simon Baldry, CCE md.
CCE had previously criticised the poor rate of plastic recycling in the UK but the new facility will more than double the amount of bottle-grade rPET created