Indorama Ventures’ PETValue Philippines recycling facility has partnered with Republic Cement & Building Materials to reduce waste sent to landfill through a new Zero Waste to Landfill initiative.
The partnership aims to recover materials from the PET recycling process that cannot be recycled into new packaging.
PETValue Philippines, a joint venture (JV) between Indorama Ventures and Coca-Cola Europacific Aboitiz Philippines, is located in Cavite and recycles post-consumer PET bottles into food-grade rPET.
As part of the initiative, caps and labels removed during recycling are recovered by Ecoloop, Republic Cement’s resource recovery business. The materials are then co-processed as an alternative fuel in cement manufacturing.
Pankaj Sinha, business head of recycling at IndoNova, the recycling arm of Indorama Ventures, said the partnership showed how collaboration could help recover additional value from materials throughout the recycling process.
‘New ways to recover value’
“At IndoNova, we believe circularity doesn’t end when a bottle becomes a bottle again,” he said. “We are continuously looking for new ways to recover value from every possible material throughout the recycling process.”
The collaboration combines PETValue Philippines’ bottle-to-bottle recycling operations with Republic Cement’s resource recovery capabilities to create a system for managing materials that cannot be recycled within the PET process.
Angela Edralin-Valencia, director of Ecoloop, said: “We help our partners recover value from waste while reducing landfill dependency. This partnership with PETValue is a strong example of circularity in action.”
Indorama Ventures entered the recycling business in 2011 and has since recycled nearly 180 billion post-consumer PET bottles. It currently recycles more than 700 PET bottles every second.
