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role in driving demand for food grade recycled soft plastic packaging, and creating market conditions that will ensure all stakeholders throughout the value chain view soft plastics as a resource and not waste,” said Marti- nez.
To date, soft plastics collected in Australia have been made into pro-
with 30% recycled content, the soft plastics were processed, then sent to Licella for conversion back into oil using the Cat-HTR advanced recycling technology. This oil was then used to produce new food grade soft plastics.”
Tanya Barden, CEO of the Australi- an Food and Grocery Council (AFGC), said learnings from the Central Coast
king at how this model can be scaled up, ensuring there is healthy demand for packaging with recycled content and helping bring to life local indus- tries that can unlock billions of dollars of value that’s currently lost to land- fill," said Barden.
Evolution of the prototype wrapper
The prototype KitKat wrapper has been created by a coalition of compa- nies with a shared vision:
REDcycle and CurbCycle, coll- ected households’ soft plastic waste, some from REDcycle bins and some from the kerbside collection trial.
֎ iQ Renew sorted those bags in
their Material Recovery Facility (MRF), removed the contami- nants, and did the primary proces- sing to create a feedstock
֎ Licella converted the plastic to oil using their Australian-developed advanced recycling technology, Cat-HTR
֎ Viva Energy Australia refined the synthetic oil
֎ LyondellBasell made food grade polypropylene
֎ Taghleef Industries created a me- talised film
֎ Amcor printed and created the wrapper
֎ And finally, Nestlé wrapped the KitKat – keeping it fresh and safe to eat.
ducts like outdoor furniture, added to road base or used in waste to energy.
Danial Gallagher, CEO of iQ Renew, said that “to improve the recycling rate of soft plastics, kerbside collec- tion is an important point of conve- nience. In the trial, soft plastics are collected from kerbside recycling bins in a dedicated bright yellow bag, then sorted from the recycling stream at our MRF. To create the KitKat wrapper
trial will be informative as the AFGC works to develop an extended pro- ducer responsibility scheme for hard to recycle plastics, such as soft plastic packaging. The AFGC received funding from a National Product Stewardship Investment Fund grant to develop the scheme arrangements, which will then be implemented and funded by industry.
"Among other things, we'll be loo-
(Source: Nestlé)
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(Source: Nestlé)
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