PWP Industries has opened an 80,000-square-foot in-house plastics recycling facility – one of the first for a thermoforming company. PWP is working with Coca-Cola Recycling LLC of Atlanta to convert post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate, or PETE, bottles into FDA-compliant resin for food grade-suitable material.
According to PWP, the first phase of the project is estimated to have an annual capacity to recycle 40 million pounds of recycled PET flake and, in the process, cut annual emission of 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide and reduce annual energy requirements by 398 million kilowatt hours. Manufacturing of post-consumer-resin PET uses about two-thirds less energy than production of virgin PET.
Coca-Cola Recycling will be the primary supplier of recycled PET flake that PWP will use as FDA-compliant resin for the production of food packaging. The limited liability company is a subsidiary of publicly traded Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., the largest bottler of Coca-Cola products.
For more information, visit www.pwpc.com.
According to PWP, the first phase of the project is estimated to have an annual capacity to recycle 40 million pounds of recycled PET flake and, in the process, cut annual emission of 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide and reduce annual energy requirements by 398 million kilowatt hours. Manufacturing of post-consumer-resin PET uses about two-thirds less energy than production of virgin PET.
Coca-Cola Recycling will be the primary supplier of recycled PET flake that PWP will use as FDA-compliant resin for the production of food packaging. The limited liability company is a subsidiary of publicly traded Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., the largest bottler of Coca-Cola products.
For more information, visit www.pwpc.com.