Mission

Creating circular food-grade recycled polypropylene from post-consumer packaging

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October 23, 2024 – New York, NY – NEXTLOOPP is delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of NEXTLOOPP Americas, an extension of our highly successful NEXTLOOPP project launched in Europe in 2020.

NEXTLOOPP Americas’ mission is to leverage NEXTLOOPP’s expertise using science-driven technologies to close the loop on post-consumer, food-grade recycled Polypropylene (FGrPP).

To help achieve this we are delighted to announce the appointment of Marcio Amazonas as Vice President NEXTLOOPP Americas.

Amazonas will spearhead the organization’s transformative initiative aimed at fast-tracking the production of high-quality food-grade recycled polypropylene (FGrPP) sourced from local post-consumer packaging for use in food-contact materials throughout the Americas.

 

We are actively seeking participants from across the American polypropylene (PP) supply chain to join NEXTLOOPP Americas and are running two introductory webinars to highlight NEXTLOOPP’s achievements and its mission for NEXTLOOPP Americas.

These will be held on 23 October 2024 and 8 November 2024, at 9 AM Pacific Time / 12 PM Eastern Time.

The webinar is invitation-only, and expressions of interest to attend can be sent via email to marcio@nextloopp.com specifying the preferred date.

New AI recycling solution is good news for the circular economy

PRSE 2024

Some of our team attended The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) in April 2024 – it was great to catch up with some of our NEXTLOOPP participants and congratulate Nico Van de Walle and the MCC Verstraete team for winning the Product Technology Innovation Award at Plastics Recycling Show Europe with their NextCycle IML decorated salt shakers for JOZO – As one of our NEXTLOOPP participants, we know first hand what a game-changer MCC’s NextCycle IMLs’ are in designing packaging for circularity! 

 

Janine Wood Edward KOSIOR Nico Van de Walle Alexander Heinsdijk MBA and Dr Jon Mitchell

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Edward Kosior

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Jon Mitchell

The K SHOW 2022

The K Show is always a time when the latest innovations are showcased and it was very encouraging to see the theme of sustainability on the majority of the stands.

Our attendance at the K Show 2022 this month was another highlight; being a great opportunity to meet many of our participants face to face for the first time. It meant we had the pleasure of extended NEXTLOOPP discussions with a wider circle of team members.

It was especially pleasing to see the NEXTLOOPP project being highlighted on so many stands and the eagerness from many to hear about how the NEXTLOOPP project was progressing. We also had a lot of positive feedback from many we met. This is a result of the ongoing contributions from the NEXTLOOPP team and the support from our participants. Thank you to you all.

WORLD STAR PACKAGING AWARDS 2022 – NEXTLOOPP

Extremely proud NEXTLOOPP team collecting the WORLD STAR award 

The real breakthrough into a sustainable circular economy has been the sorting into food packaging combined with the cleaning and decontamination of Polypropylene packaging to food safety standards. This has to meet the standards compliant with the food safety authorities using Challenge Tests for validation, which is the basis for the PPristine rPP resins.

Consortium Approach

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Making an Impact Across the Globe

Polypropylene (PP)  is the most dominant polymer in the recycling stream. In Europe alone we produce 10 million tons of PP and only 15% of this is being recycled.

Multi-client project

“We have the fundamental technologies needed to complete the loop with food-grade recycled polypropylene and we have a huge task ahead. We can’t ignore the imperatives of tackling waste today. There’s no excuse for waiting.”

Prof. Edward Kosior

Managing Director , Nextek

The logos of the above organisations are published with their permission. TotalEnergies Petrochemicals and Refining is a participant in the NEXTLOOPP project on the creation of circular food-grade recycled polypropylene until October 12, 2023. ‘lyondellbasell’ is reproduced under authorization of the LyondellBasell group of companies.

Prof Edward Kosior presenting at the SPE European Thermoforming Division.

The NEXTLOOPP Roadmap

The roadmap will help keep the project in line with industry targets providing 30% average recycled content across the plastic packaging industry by 2025.

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The UK Plastics Pact

Benefit from a Signature Process

PRISM is a new way of rapidly sorting packaging based on intelligent labels with invisible markers that can be detected and sorted using existing high-speed optical sorting systems used in MRFs with minor modifications. This technology uses commercial labelling and decoration methods which are coded with high performing luminescent compounds to sort targeted streams including food-contact plastics, bioplastics, chemical packaging, automotive plastics, black plastics and different grades of one plastic. It will help brand owners to ensure that packaging reaches the recycling loop and boost UK recycling performance.

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Current challenges facing the industry

When it comes to food grade rPP there are processes that meet EFSA and USFDA requirements but do not have EFSA approval. What is key in this area is separation of prior food use materials.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) requires the infeed material to have previously been used with food. This is due to the fact that up until now, the major barrier to increasing recycled content has been recyclers inability to mechanically differentiate between PP bottles that once contained chemical products from those containing food.

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