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Ineos partners with Forever Plast to recycle over 6.5bn bottle caps
Ineos Olefins & Polymers has formed a partnership with Forever Plast, a leading polymer recycling technologies operator in Italy. Together they have developed a range of new polyethylene grades that mirror Ineos virgin grades and fit injection moulding and compression moulding machines as part of a drive to support a more circular economy and significantly increase plastics recycling. The new Recycl-IN products take post-consumer recyclate (PCR) from used bottle caps and carefully blend them with highly engineered virgin polymer to create new high-quality caps.
Over the next five years some 6.5bn bottle caps will be diverted from the waste stream to be recycled, claims Ineos.
Iain Hogan, CEO Ineos Olefins and Polymers, explains: ‘For a while PET [polyethylene terephthalate] bottles have been increasingly recycled but this is one of the first circular developments to tackle the caps.’
News Item details
Journal title: Petroleum Review
Subjects: Reclamation, recycling and recovery, Waste recycling and disposal, Petrochemicals
