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Tetra Pak has become the first food and beverage packaging supplier to earn Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) Advanced Products certification for recycled material. Tetra Pak is integrating certified recycled polymers into the caps, tops, and/or coatings of its carton packaging.
RSB’s Advanced Products Standard permits the mixing of RSB-certified material with virgin fossil material. The mass of “attributed recycled polymers” in the resulting plastic is tracked throughout Tetra Pak’s supply chain and verified by a third-party auditor.
Tetra Pak collaborated with global petrochemical manufacturer INEOS to create the first batch of attributed recycled polyethylene (PE). INEOS used an advanced recycling process from Plastic Energy to convert waste plastic into high-quality polymers. The resulting material purportedly features the same characteristics as virgin plastic.