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NextLooPP project targets food-grade PP packaging


A project to develop a circular ap- proach for food-grade polypropylene packaging has been launched with 29 partners. The NextLooPP project is led by plastics recycling consultancy Nextek, based in the UK. Edward Kosior, founder and CEO of


Nextek, said that creating a circular economy for food-grade PP packaging waste fills a major gap in the packaging recycling sector.


He said: “It will allow brand owners to meet their recycling targets and significantly reduce the use of virgin plastics from petrochemicals. It will also


greatly reduce CO2 emissions and divert waste from landfill and waste-to- energy.” The project aims for high quality


food-grade rPP to be available in the UK by 2022. Nextek says NextLooPP uses


commercially proven technologies to separate food-grade PP using marker technologies. The approach includes decontamination stages to ensure compliance with food-grade standards in the EU and the US. Partners in the project include Viridor, Klöckner Pentaplast and


Alpla expands recycling horizons with big budget


Plastics packaging major Alpla Group has said that from 2021, it will spend an average of €50m per year on plastics recycling. The Austrian group


already has a number of PET recycling operations (in Austria, Poland and soon in Italy) and it previously committed to spending a total of €50m to expand its recycling activities up to 2025. Its new commitment means that a €50m annual spend on recycling will be ring-fenced.


Sustained demand for


recycled content from customers is leading the company’s strategy. Günther Lehner, Chairman of the Alpla Advisory Board, said the company will focus on high-quality application areas in new regions: “Our aim is to establish a bottle-


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Robinson Packaging. Lubna Edwards, Group Sustainabil- ity and Marketing Director at Robinson Packaging, said: “Demand for this high-value recycled material will continue to rise as we shift away from using virgin material. Much of our UK business depends upon PP and this ground-breaking project gives us the opportunity to tap into cutting-edge technology, learn from industry partners and trial the material for sustainable use in our packaging.” � www.nextek.org � www.nextloopp.com


Maris


moves in recycling


Alpla has PET recycling operations in Austria and Poland


to-bottle cycle – including in regions in which the recycling of waste does not currently play a large part.” Georg Lässer, Head of


Corporate Recycling, said: “This market [in Europe] is now highly competitive. We secured a strong market position early on in Western Europe with our own plants


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and partnerships, and this is something we want to further consolidate.” Alpla recycles HDPE


packaging as well as PET. A plant for HDPE recycling is being built in Toluca, Mexico, which is scheduled to go into production in autumn 2021. � www.alpla.com


Italian twin screw com- pounding machinery maker Maris has stepped up its focus on the recycling market with the launch of two new brands — Evorec Plastic and Evorec Plastic Plus. Maris has delivered a number of recycling lines over the past few years but this new move marks its “formal introduction” to the recycling solutions sector, according to a company spokesperson. Evorec Plast products


are targeted at applica- tions that require only the supply of a twin screw compounder; Evorec Plast Plus systems combine the twin screw extruder with a single screw extruder and handling equipment. � www.mariscorp.com


www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com


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