Packaging producer Pact Group has received a significant sustainable mission award for bringing Australia’s largest PET plastic recycling facility to life in simply 370 days.
Pact was awarded the Australian Institute of Mission Administration’s Sustainable Mission Administration Achievement Award for NSW for the $50 million Round Plastics Australia (CPA) PET plastic recycling facility in Albury, NSW
The CPA facility is a three way partnership between Pact, Cleanaway Waste Administration, Asahi Drinks and Coca-Cola Europacific Companions (CCEP).
Based on an announcement a group from Pact mission managed the construct, which was delivered safely, on time and beneath finances on a greenfield web site throughout a interval of main world challenges, together with the Covid-19 pandemic, provide chain pressures, and the blockage of the Suez Canal.
Regardless of these challenges, it took one yr and 5 days to determine the location, assemble the ability, set up the gear and providers, fee the equipment, and practice a brand new group.
The ability, which opened in February 2022, has the capability to recycle the equal of round one billion 600ml PET plastic beverage bottles annually into high-quality food-grade resin.
Cleanaway collects, types and delivers PET plastic waste from kerbside assortment bins and container deposit schemes to the Pact-operated facility for recycling. The recycled resin is then utilized by Asahi and Coca-Cola to fabricate new beverage bottles, and by Pact to make new beverage bottles and meals packaging.
Pact Group CEO Sanjay Dayal mentioned: “Model house owners and customers alike are demanding packaging that’s created from recycled materials and is recyclable.
“The world-class CPA PET recycling facility in Albury ensures we’re taking duty for our plastic waste, decreasing the necessity to import virgin plastic resin and minimising hurt to the setting for future generations.”
The CPA three way partnership is constructing a second PET recycling facility with comparable capability in Melbourne which is because of start operations within the first half of 2023.
The CPA PET mission in Albury was supported by a $5 million grant via the NSW Authorities’s Waste Much less, Recycle Extra initiative, and the Australian Authorities’s Recycling Modernisation Fund.
Image: Pact Group/CPA facility
