Water bottler to make its own pellets from 100% PCR PET
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Pat’s packaging blog
Ice River Springs has a bold answer to those who whine that PET bottles are bad for the environment: It’s turning post-consumer bottles into new ones in a closed-loop system.
The International Bottled Water Association recently posted a video to YouTube that gives four members—Nestle Waters North America, Absopure, Eastman, and Sparkletts—a chance to talk about what they’re doing for the environment.
Not in the video, but more impressive in my opinion, is what Canadian water bottler Ice River Springs of Shelburne, Ontario, is doing. They’re building a PET recycling plant that makes them the first bottled water company in North America to self-manufacture its own resin.
Talk about ambitious. One day you’re filling and shipping PET bottles and the next you’re taking in post-consumer bottles, sorting and cleaning them, converting PET flake to PET pellets, and injection molding preforms for the next generation of water bottles.
The sorting and cleaning systems selected by Ice River Springs come from AMUT. Starlinger is the source for rPET purification and conversion of flake to PET pellets. AMUT and Starlinger, notes Ice River Springs president Jamie Gott, teamed up to recycle PET post-consumer bottles in France. “As such,” he says, “we’re confident that our recycling plant will be a benefit to all, encouraging more recycling in North America. Our goal is to eliminate our dependency upon foreign virgin PET resin by self-manufacturing recycled resin from baled post-consumer plastic purchased from Municipal Recycling Centres.”
Now that’s what I call putting your money where your mouth is.
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Dear Mr. Reynolds,
That is a nice article and also good information about the new thought procees company is coming up with to make their own resin.
I wanted to know would flakes from clear and white PET film work in bottle manufacturing? I was looking for the IV propective...for bottling, IV is 0.7 and these PET films are IV 0.6-0.7.
Way to bring it home about the foreign virgin resins . . . . !
Is there any depolymerisation involve in this recycling of PET waste , How you bring the I.V.up for chips or flakes for bottle grade resin.
Well, most confortable way is by adding prime resin to it unless you have EPXENSIVE machines that can raise the IV of the flakes.
I have PET film clear film waste without any coating..but in boxes as slabs.
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