Uxbridge-based Coca-Cola Europacific Partners has increased its investment in a recycling technology for hard-to-recycle plastic polyester waste.
The investment, through its CCEP Ventures innovation investment engine, into recycling start-up CuRe Technology, feeds into the company’s ambition to eliminate virgin oil-based plastic from its bottles.
CuRe Technology’s recycling process creates high-quality rPET with a carbon footprint that is approximately 65% lower than virgin PET, (based on CuRe’s life cycle assessment, carbon footprint reductions compared to virgin: 2022 figure) which can be used for food and drink packaging and re-processed as many times as necessary.
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This will offer a new lease of life for hard-to-recycle plastics, accelerating the transition to a circular economy for PET and creating a new stream of rPET.
CCEP will have access to CuRe Technology’s rPET for use in its bottles in Europe, which will be supplied by a new plant set to start production in 2025.
This is CCEP’s second investment in CuRe Technology, following initial funding in 2020 to support CuRe Technology’s R&D roadmap and pilot plant. This phase will build on success to-date and take the technology to commercial readiness.
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