NEWS


Soft drinks firms set goals in Europe


A response to the European Commission’s call for voluntary pledges in its Plastics Strategy has been made by European soft drinks manufacturers, the largest users of PET bottles. The Unesda industry organisation announced goals for the industry in early September. “Achieving circularity


through optimal collection, recycling and use of recycled PET is a top priority for our industry,” said Sigrid Ligné, Director General of the organisation. “Unesda members want all their packaging, including plastics, to be collected and recycled and not discarded on our streets, oceans and waterways. To achieve this, packaging collection


VinylPlus sets high


PVC target The VinylPlus industry programme has made a new commitment to recycle 900,000 tonnes of PVC a year in Europe by 2025. The target has been set in support of the European Commission’s pledging call for industry in its Plastics Strategy. Looking further ahead,


VinylPlus has also committed to recycling a minimum of 1 million tpa of PVC by 2030. � www.vinylplus.eu


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systems must be well designed, set-up and managed by industry. Improved collection and recycling, alongside greater consumer awareness, are key to increasing the rPET content of beverage bottles.” New goals from soft


drinks makers include a com- mitment to increasing the recycled content in bottles. Unesda outlined the goals: n By 2025 100% of soft drinks primary plastic packaging will be recyclable; n By 2025 soft drinks PET bottles will contain a minimum 25% recycled material on average;


n Collection rates of soft drinks primary plastic packaging for recycling will be further increased and optimised in all EU markets in collaboration with other packaging recovery actors; n Soft drinks primary plastic packaging will be reused – including refillable bottles – where it makes environmen- tal and economic sense. Unesda said: “The soft


drinks sector supports growth of a secondary raw material market that makes food grade quality rPET sufficiently available, accessible and affordable. With these conditions met it is ready to go way beyond its current target of a minimum 25% recycled material on average.” � www.unesda.eu


Companies recruit experts


Michael Heyde has joined packaging producer Alpla as head of recycling technology, to help expand the Austrian group’s previous focus on recycling PET to include HDPE and closures. Heyde recently served as head of product and process development at Der Grüne Punkt – Duales System Deutschland in Germany.


DS Smith Recycling in


the UK has appointed Hans Werner Brocke as Managing Director for Central Europe (Recy- cling) to support “ambi- tious pan-European growth plans” for the recycling arm of the plastic and paper packaging group.


Fire at Herbold Meckesheim


Shredding and washing equipment manufacturer Herbold Meckesheim suffered damage from a fire which broke out during the night at its facility in Mecke- sheim, Germany on 10 September. The fire caused damage in the central warehouse and the shipping department and is expected “to run into the millions”, said the company. There were no casualties. The office space, test


centre and production halls were not affected by the fire. Herbold said its production will continue with certain


PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | September/October 2018


restrictions and will be compensated by existing structures. It will try to avoid serious delivery bottlenecks, it said. “The low in-house production depth and a high quantity of supplies


from subcontractors will enable a quick restart of machine and spare parts deliveries as soon as logistics have been put back on track.” � www.herbold.com


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