Greenstar, Nampak Strike Plastic Bottle Deal

Nampak Plastics, a manufacturer of plastic milk bottles located in the United Kingdom, has agreed to a deal with Irish-owned waste management and recycling company Greenstar providing 6,000 metric tons of recycled plastic each year for Nampak’s bottle-making process.

Nampak has a goal of using recycled-content plastic for 30 percent of the bottle.

Nampak is developing its own process to turn waste plastic bottles back into plastics suitable for its milk bottle manufacturing activities.

But even when this new Nampak "closed loop" plant opens next year, it will not provide all the recycled HDPE the company needs for its milk bottle production.

Greenstar WES will produce the HDPE flakes from plastic bottles processed by Greenstar UK's MRF operations, including bottles collected by its recently acquired collection company Verdant Group.

Bottles will be sorted at Greenstar's facilities in Darwen, Lancashire, and Skegness, Lincolnshire. It is also building a materials recycling facility at Aldridge in the West Midlands, capable of processing 250,000 metric tons of material.