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IMAGE: HCCB Politicians, officials and dignitaries at the project expansion event
New infrastructure for PET bottles in Indian city
The Government of Maha- rashtra, Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), and Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB), have expanded the Maha recycled PET project in Thane, India, with the inauguration of the Thane PET Collection Centre. The development comes amid a series of initiatives aimed at strengthening the collection and recycling of used PET bottles across the city. “The Thane Collection
Centre is an important step towards creating a more
organised and traceable supply chain for recyclable materials, enabling segrega- tion at source and the identification of food-grade PET for high-value recycling applications,” said Avinash Kant Kumar, Head of Integrated Supply Chain, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (HCCB). “This model demonstrates how industries can work along- side public systems to improve resource efficiency, support the availability of quality recycled material, and build resilient, sustain- able supply chains.”
The newly-inaugurated facility will serve as a dedicated aggregation and collection facility for used PET bottles recovered through the initiative. Dedicated collection bins will encourage residents to segregate used PET bottles at source, while retailers who actively contribute to the collection effort will be recognised. The programme also showcased benches manu- factured using recycled PET plastic collected through the initiative. �
www.hccb.in
Carbios has successfully manufactured, on Euro- pean industrial lines, high-quality recycled polyester t-shirts from complex textile and plastic waste, in partnership with the Fiber-to-Fiber Consor- tium: Patagonia, Puma, and Salomon. “This achievement dem-
onstrates that enzymatic recycling meets the highest requirements of the textile industry,” said Benoît Grenot, Managing Director of Carbios. “By transforming complex waste into high-purity molecular building blocks for the production of recycled polyester, we prove that circularity is already an operational reality that can be con- cretely deployed on an industrial scale.” Monomers were
repolymerized by Selenis in Portugal, the PET was spun into yarn by Antex in Spain, then knitted into fabric by Henitex in France. �
www.carbios.com
Consortium formed to deal with waste banners
SK Chemicals has formed the Waste Banner Resource Circulation Consor- tium in South Korea with several partners including MOA, Daehan Media, and Upcloth, and is launching a full-scale collaboration to build a regional circular economy model for waste banners. A representative of SK Chemicals
said: “Waste banners are a waste issue that most local communities are
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grappling with, but each region’s circumstances and approaches differ to some extent. Through collaboration with the participating organisations, we will broaden the scope to the metropolitan and provincial level to build waste banner circulation systems, and create real success stories of turning waste banners back into banners.”
Because banners are typically used PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | October 2026
only once for events, elections, and similar purposes, most are discarded after a short period. According to the South Korean Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment, approximately 6,000 tonnes of waste banners are gener- ated in Korea each year, and about 70% of them end up being landfilled or incinerated. �
www.skchemicals.com
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
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