Recycle

VERTICAL INTEGRATION OF R-PET: AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CLOSED LOOP

T2T R-PET® (stands for tray to tray recycled PET ) represents the ILPA Group’s excellence in recycling post-consumer PET food trays and punnets into new R-PET food containers. This closed-loop model is realised not only within the ILPA Group through the vertical integration of the R-PET supply chain, but also through the recycling of PET post-consumer food packaging. All of ILIP’s R-PET packaging is produced, not only from recycled bottles, but also from recycled PET punnets and trays.

ILPA Group and the closed cycle of R-PET

The ILPA Group, of which ILIP is a part, is at the forefront of sustainability and circular economy thanks to its closed loop. ILPA has an advanced recycling plant at AMP Recycling in Ferrara, Italy, EuCertPlast and EuCertPlast Food certified, where post-consumer PET bottles and food containers are processed through mechanical recycling, obtaining flakes of secondary raw material according to the principles of the circular economy.
The decontamination process, authorised by EFSA, allows to produce R-PET Food Grade, suitable for direct contact with food.

With an annual recycling capacity of 60,000 tonnes of PET, ILIP and the ILPA Group companies contribute to:

  • reduce the environmental impact of the products they recycle and those they produce
  • to the development of the circular economy for food packaging
  • achieve Italian and European plastic packaging recycling targets

Watch the video on ILPA GROUP recycling ILPA Circula Economy

COREPLA

Watch the video by Corepla (National Consortium for the Collection, Recycling and Recovery of Plastic Packaging) on ​​closed loop “tray to tray” recycling.