As an example of Nampak’s proactive approach to the environment, the company is pleased to be a member of the consortium elected by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP  www.wrap.org.uk), to research their ‘Development of the food grade HDPE recycling process’ project.

The major aim of the project was to develop a cost-efficient recycling process to produce food-grade HDPE from post-consumer recycling for new milk bottles. This has been achieved through the world’s first recycled content milk bottle on sale in Marks & Spencer’s organic milk bottle range with 10% recycled HDPE content.

Active members of the consortium dedicated to a whole scale launch of rHDPE now include:

• Delleve Plastics UK (source of baled bottles from several UK suppliers)
• RTT Systemtechnik, Germany (sorting of bottles)
• Sorema/Previero, Italy (washing and sorting bottles)
• EREMA Austria (super-clean recycling).
• RAPRA UK (super-clean recycling, polymer charicterisation).
• Dairy Crest Limited (filling and product shelf life testing).
• Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Germany (analytical screening of post consumer HDPE, determination of process cleaning efficiency, challenge testing and compliance testing and evaluation).