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Coca-Cola Indonesia Introduces Nationwide Rollout of Bottles Made from 100% Recycled PET

Coca-Cola Indonesia, in partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), is launching recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) bottles nationwide.

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CCEP Indonesia and Dynapack Asia have opened a recycling plant in West Java that recycles all used PET bottles. The plant is manufacturing the entire bottle with rPET except for the cap and label.

This development is a major step towards a closed-loop circular economy in Indonesia and aligns with CCEP's goal of using 50% less recycled plastic in its packaging by 2025. The objective of this operation is as per the ambition of the Coca-Cola company, 'A World Without Waste’.

The recycling facilities collaborate with Mahija Parahita Nusantara to manufacture rPET bottles. The foundation Mahija Parahita Nusantara collects the waste and provides raw materials to the recycling plants.

This move is a significant contribution towards reducing dependence on new plastics in Indonesia and ramping down carbon emissions during production.

Coca-Cola is also focussing on collecting the equivalent number of cans and bottles it sells by 2030, which is becoming possible by the efforts employed by Mahija Parahita Nusantara.

Lately, CCEP has also collaborated with Sidel for the production of lightweight carbonated soft drink plastic bottles.

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Also, in 2020, Coca-Cola Australia also came up with a solution to the packaging problem by producing 7 out of 10 bottles from recycled plastics. The idea primarily originated from the objective of palliating the use of harmful content that are abrasive to the environmental health.

According to Procurement Resource, Coca-Cola has concluded that these steps will work towards the decrement of plastic usage by more than 20 percent as compared to 2018. Furthermore, this step will impact greenhouse gas emissions by reducing them to 10,000 metric tons.