First bottles with UK rHDPE hit the shelves

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16/04/2009

Following reprocessor Greenstar WES’s announcement that it is now the first UK based supplier of food grade recycled HDPE plastic (rHDPE), the milk bottles which Nampak Plastics supplies to Dairy Crest for Marks and Spencer’s organic milk range will now contain UK produced rHDPE. 

Recycled content HDPE milk bottles have been on the shelves for the past two years, with previous supplies of rHDPE sourced from Europe.  Nampak estimates that to date approximately 21 million milk bottles with up to 10% recycled content HDPE have been produced. 

Commenting on Greenstar’s announcement, James Crick, Business Development Director for Nampak Plastics Europe says: “Assisting in the closing of the UK recycling loop has always been our aim and we are very pleased to now be using recycled HDPE processed here in the UK.  Our goal is to now increase the tonnages of rHDPE we source from the UK in order to reach our goal of adding up to 30% recycled content HDPE in all our UK manufactured milk bottles by 2015.”

Nampak will ultimately take 6,000 tonnes of rHDPE annually from Greenstar WES,  6,000 tonnes annually from Closed Loop Recycling and 12,000 tonnes annually from AWS Eco-plastics for manufacturing all its HDPE milk bottles in the UK with up to 30% recycled content by 2015.  The company has been instrumental in helping drive the initiative to use food grade recycled plastic for milk bottle packaging.

More information on Greenstar WES and its Redcar factory can be found at http://www.thewesgroup.co.uk/.  More information on bottle2bottle recycling can be found at http://www.bottle2bottle.com/.

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