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Beyond what Indorama calls positive benefits
of recycling and reusing PET, the activity also
has helped avoid an estimated 3.8 million tons of
CO emissions over the PET bottle product life
2
cycle and diverted 2.8 million tons of discarded
plastic from landfills and the environment, the
firm calculates.
Indorama calls the achievement rooted in its
integrated and scalable approach to circularity
and anchored in three core pillars: education,
company’s strategic investments in infrastruc- collection, and innovation.
ture, partnerships and innovation to scale up re-
cycling at speed.” Through its recycling education initiative, the
Waste Hero program, Indorama says it has
“Recycling 150 billion PET bottles is more than a taught close to 1 million people in schools and
milestone—it reflects the power of people, pur- communities worldwide about plastic recycling,
pose and technology driving scalable, sustain- “empowering individuals to make informed
able impact,” says Yash Lohia, an Indorama’s choices and driving long-term behavioral change
executive president and chairman of its Environ- in recycling.”
mental, Social and Governance (ESG) Council.
“We’re grateful to our consumers, customers, Partnering with a network of collection organi-
and partners who make this progress possible,” zations helps ensures Indorama of a consistent
adds Lohia. “This achievement reinforces the supply of high-quality postconsumer PET, “sup-
value of long-term thinking, strategic investment, porting the integrity of circular supply chains,”
and collaboration as we lead the shift toward a adds the firm.
circular economy.”
Source- https://www.recyclingtoday.com
Aimplas improves recycling of
multilayer plastic materials
ultilayer plastic materials present a ma- and increases the amount of waste ending up in
jor challenge at the end of their life cy- landfills or incinerators.
Mcle due to the complexity of separat-
ing and processing their different components. Aimplas is addressing this issue through innova-
This difficulty leads to lower recycling efficiency tive technologies such as physicochemical de-
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