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Coke Recycling Venture Processes 500 Million Bottles in Year One

Coke Recycling Venture Processes 500 Million Bottles in Year OneContinuum Recycling, the recycled-PET joint venture between Coca-Cola Enterprises and ECO Plastics, says it has processed 500 million bottles since opening in May 2012. The companies say the development of Continuum Recycling, located on the site of ECO Plastics’ existing facility in Lincolnshire, Great Britain, created the world’s largest plastics reprocessing facility, and that it has doubled the amount of bottle-grade recycled plastic (rPET) previously created in Britain since it opened a year ago. Continuum is now responsible for processing around 50% of all the plastic bottles collected in the UK. The facility also played a key role in Coca-Cola’s recycling efforts during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with some 15 million plastic bottles collected and returned to shelves as part of 63 million new bottles. More…

News selected by Covalence | Country: UK | Company: Coca-Cola Enterprises | Source: Environmental Leader

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