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a plastics recycling facility in Westminster,
S.C., which has a capacity
of 40,000 tonnes in 8,000 square
meters with two washing lines and
two extruders for rigid plastics.
A company spokesman for
PreZero US recently said the
South Carolina facility was not
performing as expected. But despite
the decision, PreZero said
the company still aspires to
eventually expand plastics recycling
operations throughout
the United States.
Recycled resins produced by
PreZero go into a wide variety of
applications, including building
and construction, industry, garden,
furniture, household and
automotive. PreZero also is developing
a market for packaging.
The firm sees its entry into
the larger overall environmental
services sector as a way to
penetrate the recycling market
more deeply over time as the
company now has access to a
large waste stream.
" On the one end, it is good
to have the possibility to collect
the waste, " Mikolajczyk explained.
" Now the future focus
will be on how to recycle all the
things we collect.
" We want to get better and
better at what we are doing,
and therefore, whenever you
see a chance to recycle a new
waste stream or when we have
enough recyclables collected
and sorted and see the potential
for us to recycle, we want to
do this, " Mikolajczyk said.
As part of this overall push to
capture more materials from the
waste stream, the company wants
to continue expanding its plastics
recycling businesses over time.
" Our philosophy is to help
the country, to help our customers
and therefore society, to
get step by step to create less
waste and have recyclables in a
closed loop, " he said.
While Schwarz Group is working
through PreZero to capture
and reuse plastics, the company
also seeks to cut down on its
own plastic use in general for
the Lidl and Kaufland private-label
packaging.
The company has established
what is called the Reset Plastic
target of reducing plastic by 20
percent by 2025. German operations
for both retail outlets have
already surpassed that goal, with
Kaufl and stores in Germany cutting
plastic by 26 percent and Lidl
in Germany cutting by 22 percent.
The company also wants to
use an average of 25 percent recycled
content in private-label
plastic packaging by 2025 and
currently stands at an average
of 14 percent across the retail
chains.
Kaufland is using 29 percent
recycled resin and Lidl in
Germany is using 23 percent,
thanks to the use of 100 percent
recycled content in disposable
PET bottles made by the company's
food and beverage arm,
Schwarz Produktion. That figure
does not include bottles
and labels, Schwarz said.
" Our vision is to give a new
life to more than 500,000 tonnes
of plastic waste worldwide by
2030, " PreZero CEO Thomas
Kyriakis said in a statement.
" This can only be achieved if
PreZero was created by Germanybased
retail giant Schwarz Group
to help it handle recycled material
that passes through its 13,300
stores globally. At K 2022,
the company was running live
demonstrations of recycling with
Erema Group.
Plastics News photos by Caroline Seidel
more and more companies realize
that plastic recyclates are
better raw materials - better
for the environment and the climate,
and therefore better for
the company's own success. "
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