Bottles

On 22nd April, on the occasion of Earth Day, Acqua Lete and the AC Milan Football Club announced the launch of an innovative environmental sustainability project in collaboration with Coripet, a leading consortium in the collection and...

While in Europe media promote circular economy, recycling and reuse of packaging on a daily basis to guarantee long life to the planet, increasingly threatened by global warming, in Africa waste recycling is still today a strongly backward sector. However, there are...

Amut, an Italian manufacturer of extrusion and recycling plants, has recently completed the commissioning of a recycling plant for Pet Star Recycling, part of Pet Star Group, together with Pet Star Holding, a leading producer of preforms for PET bottles, in Romania. The company...

The manufacturer of in-home carbonations systems SodaStream is known for marketing products which transform tap water into flavoured or unflavoured sparkling soda water at the touch of a button.

Free bus tickets in exchange for plastic PET bottles as a means to help the environment and allow Catania residents to save money by obtaining free tickets for local public transport. This is the goal of the "Ricicla e Viaggia" initiative, promoted by AMT (Catania metropolitan transport company) with the Coripet recyclers’ consortium, Dusty (a company that collects waste), and the MyCicero app.

The global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist, the Alpla Group, is investing more than five million euros in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled PET (rPET) made of used PET bottles (so-called post-consumer material) at its site in Anagni (Frosinone, Italy).

Diageo partnered with glass manufacturer Encirc and research and technology body Glass Futures on the project, which used the firm’s Black & White Scotch brand as the test subject. The project saw the use of a waste-based powered furnace to cut the carbon footprint of of the bottle-making process by up to 90%.