WorldStar Winner: PET bottle made of 100% post-consumer recycled materials (50% from the Yellow bag)

WINNERS 2023

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PET bottle made of 100% post-consumer recycled materials (50% from the Yellow bag)

Company:

Werner & Mertz and ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG

www.werner-mertz.de

Country: Germany

Category: Packaging Materials and Components

Together with our cooperation partner ALPLA, we achieved the seemingly impossible: we succeeded in increasing the proportion of recyclate from the yellow bag in PET bottles from 20% to 50%. The remaining 50% come from the European beverage bottle collection (Bottle-to-Bottle) – that’s a quantum leap in recycling!

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We develop our products according to the Cradle-to-Cradle® design principle. According to this principle, crude oil that was once used for the production of plastics remains in the cycle and is not irretrievably burned. This is how a bottle can be turned into a bottle again.

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