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| Recycled plastic milk bottles become a reality | ||
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| Published: 11/04/2007 | ||
A WRAP funded project was recently carried out by a team involving experts from the food, plastics and material recovery industries to produce 60,000 recycled content milk bottles for commercial sale.  During the course of the three-year project, the team worked closely with the Foods Standards Agency to ensure the bottles met the rigorous safety standards in place.  The project demonstrates that ‘closed loop’ recycling of plastic milk bottles is commercially viable. Used plastic bottles from both kerbside and bring schemes in the UK were collected and recycled back into new milk bottles.  With some 130,000 tonnes of plastic milk bottles in use, this technology could significantly improve the future of plastics recycling in the UK .  WRAP is now negotiating contracts to provide financial support to potential recyclers to get the process commercially established.  For further information visit the WRAP website: http://www.wrap.org.uk/wrap_corporate/news/world_first.html | ||
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