DutchPETRecyclingFrom our reliable and existing source new loadings of Clear PET Bottles and Clear PET Preforms will be available soon. It concerns post production material of an exceptional high quality.
Both materials are ongoing.
If you are interested, please contact us at: info@dutchpetrecycling.com
Dear all,
The 27th of April we will be celebrating the birthday of our King, Willem Alexander van Oranje!
The Netherlands will be one big party. Children on the streets, trading in secondary materials. We do not want to compete with them! We therefore will not be present in our offices but are enjoying the party, drinking “Oranje Bitter”, wearing orange clothes and decorations.
We will be available the next Thursday (please not to early 😉) for all your questions.
With Orange greetings,
Dutch PET Recycling BV (DPR) is a plastic recycling company with a focus on recycled PET bottles/flakes (RPET). From our social responsibility point of view, contributing to solving global pollution has a high priority. Dutch PET Recycling connects local recycling companies with the demand from the circular plastic industry. With over 30 years of experience in recycling, a huge network and knowledge base in secondary raw materials has emerged. Headquartered in the Netherlands, and with global partners and local agents, we are serving customers worldwide.
OBP certification
The vast majority (80%) of plastics that pollute oceans originate from land. Needless to say, it is easier and cheaper to collect these plastics before they end up in the oceans, than once they have sunk to the bottom of the oceans or are dispersed as a soup of micro-particles for the plastics that remain floating. It is therefore logical and important that we focus our efforts on removing Ocean Bound Plastics from the environment before it is too late.
To reinforce this commitment, Control Union (CU) has set up the OBP certification program together with NGO Zero Plastics Oceans. Detailed information can be found here and on https://www.obpcert.org/.
For Dutch PET Recycling, certification means that all the conditions for the quality mark have been met enabling DPR to sell their products with the claim “OBP certified”. And also that, together with our successful certified suppliers we can cover a large part of the chain.
But there is more:
Added value
The added value of OBP certification lies mainly in the transparency of the entire recycling process. The new end product or the new raw material for a producer can be demonstrably traced back to the moment it was collected as waste, before it threatened to end up in the ocean.
The sad images of the ‘plastic soup’ are in everyone’s mind. Fortunately, there are good initiatives to clean it up. By preventing plastic from disappearing into the ocean in the first place, the time will come when the oceans will be clean and remain so. Contributing to improving the environment appeals to everyone. Both consumers and producers that work with OBP material also want to be associated with it.
The added value extends throughout the chain. From a better infrastructure for solid waste management, major benefits for the local economy and public health, to better working conditions for the collectors of the waste.
There is also added value in being certified by Control Union. CU is a global company that is independent of any other company in the entire process. The OBP certificate is therefore, provided the audit has been passed successfully, an irrefutable proof of transparency and professionalism. The assessment criteria are tough and contribute to further awareness of a transparent process, a higher quality level and the right to use the OBP logo.
Dutch PET Recycling is proud of the certification it has achieved!
Dutch PET Recycling is proud to announce that they have become the first Dutch Company that is OBP certified. Together with one of our suppliers we are now able to deliver Ocean RPET. Each step of the process is transparent, traceable and verifiable. From collecting used bottles till delivering Ocean RPET Flakes on your front door!
Ocean Bound Plastic is indirectly defined by the publication of Jenna Jembeck et al. in Science on 13th February 2015. In general one can say that Ocean Bound Plastic is a plastic waste that is not collected correctly and is abandoned in the environment where it will be transported to the ocean either by rain, wind, tides, river flow or floods.
The OBP Certification Program was developed by the NGO Zero Plastic Oceans in collaboration with the certification group Control Union. They are an independent and worldwide certifier on OBP!
The OBP Certification Program is designed to encourage the removal of Ocean Bound Plastic from the environment by adding value in effectively collecting and treating it before it reaches oceans. That is why Dutch PET Recycling is proud to contribute to a coherent global action against Ocean Bound Plastic and preventing Ocean Plastic.
Join us in using Ocean RPET!
DPR is closely cooperating with sister company Plastic Recycling Africa in baling and distributing PET Bottles. Having set up plants in Burkina Faso, Tanzania and with partnerships in Zimbabwe and other countries in development, we are still expanding our possibilities at the African continent.
Shipments from our local plants in Burkina Faso and Tanzania are up and running. Our partner Plastic Recycling Africa is the official distributor. It all started some years ago in sharing knowledge about recycling with some relationships in Africa.
Besides the plants in Burkina Faso and Tanzania, we are also closely cooperating with an existing plant in Zimbabwe. In this way we are expanding our ambitions to provide customers with PET Bottles, Flakes, Pellets and byproducts.
More detailed information about Plastic Recycling Africa can be found on their website: www.plasticrecyclingafrica.com
Dutch PET Recycling Team wishes you and your loved ones Happy Holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2022
2021 was a year in which the ability to puzzle became an important asset. Markets were extremely volatile. Plastic recycling became much more prominent while logistics turned out to cause a lot of headaches. Focusing on the long term, while struggling with daily issues, we expanded our global network. We succeeded in finding new committed sources from bottles to flakes by starting several new joint ventures. New customers discovered our capabilities. The ability to supply Ocean Bound Plastic turned out to be a promising new marketing tool. By all in we are looking to a promising New Year, despite the current new wave of Covid.
Dutch PET Recycling Team wishes you and your loved ones Happy Holidays and a healthy and prosperous 2022.
As in previous years we donated to www.vive-initiative.nl to support education for girls and women in Africa
The Doing Business in Africa Award is awarded to a NABC Member with a proven track record in providing innovative, environmentally and financially sustainable, and inclusive services and/or product!
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A nice example of one of the participants of the European Plastics Pact, which Dutch PET Recycling also joined. For a better carbon footprint and a circular economy!
The original article is in Dutch on https://verpakkingsmanagement.nl/nieuws
FRIESCHE VLAG SWITCHES FROM GLASS TO RPET
Coffee milk producer Friesche Vlag is switching from its single-use glass coffee milk bottles to recycled PET bottles. These rPET bottles feature a sleeve with ‘zipper’ that allows consumers to easily remove the label from the bottle so the bottles can be recycled.
‘Replacing single-use glass, a material we’ve all been recycling for years, with plastic can feel like the wrong move,’ says R&D director Patrick van Baal.
‘We know that the carbon footprint and fossil resource use of our recycled PET bottles is significantly lower than the single-use glass bottles we were using.’
In addition, the recycled PET bottles are not breakable, easy to open and pour better. It is our ambition to become fully circular with the smallest possible impact on the climate. With this introduction we are taking another good step towards our goals of using circular packaging with the lowest possible carbon footprint.’
Cap and label
The rPET bottles of Goudband and Halvamel consist of 100% recycled material. The cap and label are not made of recycled material. The rPET bottle (excluding cap and label) of Balance is made of 89% recycled material. Because Balance is a sensitive product, it is extra important to keep oxygen out of the bottle. To achieve this, FrieslandCampina adds a so-called extra ‘oxygen barrier’ to the bottle. This is why the bottle cannot yet be made from 100% recycled PET. We are continuing to work on improving this. All bottles are fully recyclable after the label – which is not recyclable – is removed and the cap is put back on,’ says Van Baal.
Objectives
One of the objectives of FrieslandCampina’s sustainability program ‘Nourishing a better planet’ is to create better packaging that is 100% circular and CO2 neutral, and in which the company minimizes the amount of packaging material. To this end, the company has also established its goals through international and national partnerships such as the European and Dutch Plastic Pact and ‘the new plastics global commitment’ of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
In the Netherlands, finally, a deposit return system for small plastic bottles and cans will come into effect on the 1st of July, 2021 respectively 31st of December 31, 2022.
This entails a huge expansion of the current Deposit Return System (DRS) in the Netherlands. “After decades of resistance by industry, this government’s decision is great news in the fight against plastic pollution.
Currently, only plastic bottles larger than 1 liter have a deposit in the Netherlands. On the 1st of July 2021, small bottles (used for water or soft drinks) under 1 liter will come with a deposit amount of 15 euro cents. Each year, 1 billion small plastic bottles are sold in the Netherlands. Between 50 and 100 million of them end up in litter.
The Dutch authorities are also preparing legislation for deposits on beverage cans. There are approximately 2 billion cans in circulation in the Netherlands every year. And according to European Aluminium, about 82% of this is recycled in the Netherlands, or 1.7 billion. The government wants to improve this and announced that a deposit on cans will be introduced as of December 31st , 2022. Also a deposit of 15 euro cents is then charged per can.
The Netherlands is not unique in this aspect and is even a late bloomer.
However, by implementing a deposit on small plastic bottles and cans, the Netherlands takes a big step. The Dutch government shows that this is no time to delay or abandon our environmental ambitions. Even in difficult times it’s possible to make good policy decisions that will benefit the economy, society and the environment, rather than bowing to industry attempts to use the pandemic as an excuse for backsliding on popular initiatives.
Let’s drive circularity together!