Mission
Creating circular food-grade recycled Polypropylene from post-consumer packaging
Vision
- Develop the infrastructure and systems for recycling PP to food grade in major population centres (in UK?)
- Start the recovery of branded PP products for recycling
- Production of food grade PP for re-use into consumer products including cosmetics and food
- Establish certification by EFSA and USFDA for the manufacturing processes
- Enhance the current recycling and decontamination processes to boost economic efficiency and reduce cost
- Develop specific grades of rPP for film and sheet extrusion, thermoforming, blow moulding, and injection moulding
- Develop generic processing solutions for the major processing technologies that maximise recycled content and ensure processing stability for monolayer and multilayer structures
- Develop new “design for food-grade recycling” guidelines for brand owners, retailers and convertors.
Benefits
- Sharing of knowledge in the technical advances that can boost the recyclability of PP packaging
- Provide a pathway to the circular PP model for brand-owners and retailers via the NEXTLOOPP systems and technologies
- Opportunity to trial early production materials in bespoke products
- Capacity to solve problems encountered in the recycling of PP packaging