The name reflects the fact that the joint venture company will establish a continuous process for re-processing plastic bottles in Great Britain.
Used plastic bottles will be recycled in Lincolnshire and the materials produced will be re-used in new Coca-Cola bottles.
Jonathan Short, MD, Eco Plastics, said: “I’m delighted that we are on track to deliver against the ambitious project timetable. Eco Plastics’ plant is already the largest and most sophisticated in Europe and having put the finishing touches to a £24m financing packaging in the last month, we will now be able to increase capacity from 100,000 tons to 140,000 tons of mixed plastic bottles per year, just under 50% of the total collected last year.”
Since the announcement that Eco Plastics had received planning permission for a £15m expansion in May, work has advanced rapidly and ground works, foundations and a new road have all already been completed.
The new facility will increase the amount of bottle-grade rPET currently produced in the UK to more than 75,000 tons a year, more than doubling the current total. Having been transformed into food?grade rPET pellet by Continuum Recycling, these will then be used in Coca-Cola bottles, enabling Coca-Cola Enterprises to meet its target of including 25% recycled PET in all its plastics packaging by 2012, the company said.
Source: Coca-Cola Enterprises
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