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Activating circular solutions

At kp, we have long been committed to helping activate a complete circular economy across the globe. We see our innovative products as key to helping more countries avoid sending valuable waste to landfill or incineration, or to areas with a lack of infrastructure for collection, sorting and recycling.

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kp has been awarded ECOSENSE certification through the non-profit Spain-based PLASTIC SENSE Foundation

To help achieve our commitments, our sister company INFIA conducted trials at the TOMRA recycling facility in Germany to prove their rPET fruit and vegetable packaging solutions are fully recyclable. Tests included assessing the impact of secondary packaging elements, such as bubble wrap in the base of berry fruit punnets and absorbent pads in meat trays.

Results showed that single (mono) material PET packaging manufactured by kp and our sister company INFIA can be sorted with the highest efficiency thanks to the facility’s SHARPEYE infra-red equipment. Using this technology, they could also detect and sort black trays for recycling, which are usually far more challenging to recycle as infra-red sorting beams struggle to detect the colour in the sorting process if carbon black is used in such materials.
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