Environmental Policy

As a major producer of plastics packaging in Europe Nampak is conscious of its responsibility to the environmental implications of its operations.

As an example of our proactive approach to the environment, Nampak Plastics Europe are pleased to be a member of the consortium that has been chosen by the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), to research their “Development of food grade HDPE recycling process” project.

The major aim of the project is to develop a cost-efficient recycling process to produce food-grade HDPE from post-consumer recyclate for new milk bottles. To achieve this aim comprehensive analytical screening of the post-consumer HDPE feedstock is foreseen as an indispensable basis for the definition of the safety conditions for the process system and the design of individual process steps.

Other members of the consortium are;-

• Delleve Plastics UK (source of baled bottles from several UK suppliers)
• RTT Systemtechnik, Germany (sorting of bottles)
• Sorema/Previero, Italy (washing and sorting bottles)
• EREMA Austria (super-clean recycling).
• RAPRA UK (super-clean recycling, polymer charicterisation).
• Dairy Crest Limited (filling and product shelf life testing).
• Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, Germany (analytical screening of post consumer HDPE, determination of process cleaning efficiency, challenge testing and compliance testing and evaluation).

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