"Currently, Thailand has to import plastic waste from other countries, especially Japan, in order to comply with an international manufacturing rule that requires 1/3 of the materials used to come from recycled material, as its locally generated plastic waste is considered unfit for industrial recycling processes," says Vipin Kumar. He looks after 7 PET plants of Thailand's largest plastic producer Indorama.
Whereas PET recycled in Thailand is exported to Japan or Australia, companies like Coca Cola Thailand have to use 100% bottles from new PET to comply with Thai food packaging regulations. Worldwide the company uses 50% recycled material for it's bottles.
Good news from non-food packaging plastic recycling.
French waste specialist SUEZ helps to reduce plastic waste pollution with a new plant to recycle 30,000 tons/year of locally collected low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) plastic film waste, into high-quality post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR) to be reused in products.
Thailand World Number 6 in Ocean Plastic
with up to 400,000 tons per year. Almost double the figure of India.
Sources: |Bangkok Post, May 21, 2019 |Suez, June 4, 2019
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