Building the circular economy

We are part of several global collaborative initiatives and projects with a multitude of partners, some of which include kp customers, well-known brands and retailers, proving sources of valuable material previously lost to landfill or incineration can be recovered and used in new protective packaging – closing the loop, creating new circular economies and new streams of valuable recycled material.

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PETCore thermoforming working group is an EU project led by kp to prove that you can sort and recycle food trays made from single (mono) material PET to create a new source of valuable material, which can be made into more protective food trays made from 100% recycled PET.

As partners of IK – the German Plastic Packaging Industry Association – we collaborated with partners and created a working group that hired recycling sorting equipment to sort, recover and use food trays to make more recycled food packaging.

As part of the group, kp took the PET recovered from the project and manufactured trays, proving tray-to-tray recycling.

CEUS – Circular Economy for Urban Plastic Waste – is a project in Pravia, Spain, that works locally with our plant to recover any plastics in the domestic general waste that could be contaminated and would normally be thrown into landfill, along with everything that the householder may not realise can be recycled. This is creating a new stream of valuable waste and reducing what goes into landfill.