Recently, Borealis, Henkel and Korozo Group, a flexible packaging and film manufacturer based in Turkey, have collaborated to jointly develop flexible packaging for laundry detergent containing 30% post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR) to promote plastic recycling.

Nordic Semiconductor, a leading manufacturer of low-power wireless IoT connectivity solutions, has announced that it has become one of the first semiconductor companies to make component reels from recycled plastic, taking an important step in its sustainability strategy and saving nearly 15,000 kilograms of waste plastic each year.

As the recycling market expands in scale, high-quality waste becomes a more valuable resource, and recycling companies are willing to pay higher prices to purchase cleaner and purer waste recycled plastics in order to produce high-quality products.

Sidel has expanded its StarLITE-R range of r-PET bases with the launch of the StarLITE-R-Nitro, a unique wavy base design for nitrogen-filled still beverages and edible oils.

Lenovo Group (HK 00992) officially released its ESG report for the fiscal year 2023/24. The report shows that Lenovo Group's use of ocean plastics has expanded to some desktop/all-in-one computers, consumer notebooks and server products, and it is expected to use 165 tons of ocean plastics (plastics recycled from marine plastic waste) each year, equivalent to recycling about 9 million plastic water bottles.

Coca-Cola Eurasia Partners (CCEP) Netherlands has announced that it is moving towards using 97% recycled plastic to manufacture its iconic red plastic crates, which are used to transport refillable glass bottles of Coca-Cola in the Dutch restaurant industry.

French biochemical company CARBIOS has collaborated with global cosmetics brand L’Occitane and cosmetics and personal care packaging manufacturer Pinard Beauty Pack to develop a transparent recycled polyethylene terephthalate bottle (r-PET bottle) made entirely from an enzymatic depolymerization process.

PepsiCo Europe is working with Germany’s GreenDot Group to recycle plastic waste into materials for flexible snack packaging, in line with PepsiCo’s goal to increase recycled content in packaging and reduce the company’s carbon footprint.