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Cross-industry project launched to develop food-grade recycled polypropylene
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Companies from across the value chain, including Danone, Viridor, Sealed Air and Tomra, have joined a project to create food-grade packaging from recycled polypropylene.
The leader of the project, Nextek, says that PP packaging is currently either going to waste-to-energy, landfill or being down-cycled into low-performance applications, wasting precious resources.
This new initiative, called âNEXTLOOPPâ, employs commercially-proven methods to separate food-grade PP using marker technologies. These include cutting-edge decontamination stages to ensure compliance with food-grade standards in the EU and the USA.
Major organisations including brand-owners, suppliers, universities and industry associations, through to end-users in the PP supply chain, have joined NEXTLOOPP to produce the high-quality, food-grade recycled PP, which will be available in the UK by 202
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Molson Coors unveils bottles with 90% lower carbon footprint
The Molson Coors Beverage Company is rolling out new glass beer bottles that have reduced the carbon emissions associated with production by up to 90%.
In 2019, the brewer confirmed that efforts to halve its direct (Scope 1) and power-related (Scope 2) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, against a 2016 baseline, by 2025 had been approved by the SBTi
Molson Coors, which owns brands such as Carling and Coors Light, is introducing the low-carbon bottles across the UK.
The company has worked with its bottling partner Encirc, which produces around two million glass bottles for the Staropramen brand alone, to develop the bottles.