Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Links Pacific Waste to Australian Manufacturing Supply Chain

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners leads Pacific PET circularity program

CCEP has announced that the first shipment of community-collected PET from Vanuatu has arrived in Melbourne for processing at its facility in Altona North.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners links Pacific waste to Australian manufacturing supply chain

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners says it has launched a regional initiative aimed at strengthening manufacturing supply chains by enabling recycled PET from Pacific Island nations to be processed into new beverage bottles in Australia.

Pacific PET enters Australia’s recycling supply chain

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Australia (CCEP) has launched a regional circularity initiative with Circular Plastics Australia (CPA) to establish a bottle-to-bottle supply chain for PET collected from the Pacific. The program is being implemented in Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu, where recycling infrastructure is limited. In its first year, the initiative is expected to recover around 2000 tonnes of PET. Capacity could increa…

CCEP to recycle Pacific plastic in Australia

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has launched a program to import community-collected PET from Pacific Island nations into Australia for recycling into food-grade rPET. Delivered through Circular Plastics Australia PET (CPA), a joint venture between Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management, Asahi Beverages and CCEP, the initiative is described by CCEP as an important early step in establishing a regular pathway for Pacific-collected plastic t…

CCEP launches cross-border PET recycling program

Image: CCEPCoca-Cola Europacific Partners Australia (CCEP) has launched a regional recycling program with Circular Plastics Australia PET, creating a pathway to process PET collected across Pacific Island nations. The first shipment of community collected PET from Vanuatu, totalling 9.4 tonnes, has arrived in Melbourne for processing at Circular Plastics Australia’s facility in Altona North. Further shipments from Fiji and Papua New Guinea are e…