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Turning trash into a tradeable commodity

09-20-2016 11:27 AM CET | Energy & Environment

Press release from: Mpact Recycling

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From resealable Ziploc plastic bags and airtight plastic storage containers to individual single-portion plastic sachets for your favourite foods, the plastics industry offers many ways for consumers to reduce the amount of food wasted in their homes. However, all this plastic used to preserve food for longer, eventually has to end up somewhere.

"Post-consumer plastic waste is a growing problem for landfill management and in terms of waste disposal. This is where post-consumer recycling can make an enormous positive environmental impact,” says Ronald Fairbanks, General Manager of Mpact Polymers.

Mpact, along with other packaging manufacturers, industry bodies and recycling groups, has committed to plastic recycling with the objective of reducing the amount of plastic that makes it into landfill sites. In 2015, Mpact closed the loop with its PET recycling operation which takes used PET beverage bottles and turns them into new beverage bottles.

Recently, Minister Edna Molewa of the Department of Environmental Affairs officially opened the Mpact Polymers plant. The plant produces recycled PET (rPET) for use in beverage bottles and food packaging. The operation forms part of Mpact’s mission to reduce the PET industry’s impact on the environment.

"Bottling manufacturers are focusing on reducing packaging material weight as well as reducing the amount of virgin PET used in the production of new bottles. For this reason, it became necessary to consider ways to recycle bottles back into the system and ensure that this rPET is of sufficient quality to be used in the manufacture of new bottles,” explains Fairbanks.

“PET can be recycled multiple times, which reduces manufacturing costs and waste, saves carbon dioxide and energy, avoids using landfill space, and decreases the need for raw materials," explains Cheri Scholtz, CEO of PETCO, the PET Recycling Company, “helping to create a more sustainable supply chain.”

Mpact is one of the leading paper and plastics packaging businesses in southern Africa, listed on the JSE’s Main Board in the Industrial – Paper and Packaging sector. The Group has leading market positions in southern Africa in recovered paper collection, corrugated packaging, recycled-based cartonboard and containerboard, polyethylene-terephthalate (PET) preforms, recycled PET, styrene trays and plastic jumbo bins. These leading market positions allow Mpact to meet the increasing requirements of its customers, and to achieve economies of scale and cost effectiveness at the various operations.

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