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Low carbon-footprint bottle-to-bottle rPET plant

At The Packaging Conference, co-CEO of rPlanet Earth discusses the company's new plant, which will soon come online, converting post-consumer PET into high rPET-content bottle preforms, sheet, and thermoformed products.

Robert Daviduk, co-CEO of rPlanet Earth, talks about the company's low carbon-footprint, bottle-to-bottle recycling technology.
Robert Daviduk, co-CEO of rPlanet Earth, talks about the company's low carbon-footprint, bottle-to-bottle recycling technology.

Fledgling company rPlanet Earth (rPE, 310/527-0733) is on a mission to revolutionize the way PET is recycled and put back into packaging. rPE’s model is to recycle post-consumer PET, including water and soda bottles and thermoformed containers, into a bottle-grade flake that exceeds FDA requirements for direct food-contact applications. The company will then use the rPET flake to manufacture high rPET-content bottle preforms, sheet, and thermoformed products for food, beverage, cosmetics, and other packaging applications.

What’s unique about rPE’s process, Robert Daviduk, co-CEO of rPE, told attendees at The Packaging Conference, is its low carbon footprint versus traditional PET recycling and rPET package manufacturing methods. With traditional processes, one facility sorts, grinds, and washes the PCR PET, another decontaminates and pelletizes the material, and a third produces the rPET preforms or sheets. With the rPE process, all steps are done in one location, with the exception of pelletization, which is not required.

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