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Recycling

GroenCollect and OneCircle make lightweight plastic beverage containers circular

Den Helder, Netherlands

Many plastic beverage containers in the Netherlands are not being recycled and end up in waste incinerators or even end up as "landfill" abroad - even though plastic beverage containers with a circular design contain very valuable raw materials that can be reused. Together with OneCircle, GroenCollect has started a recycling programme for two types of single-use plastic containers in the four major cities of the Netherlands.

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GroenCollect, an innovative recycling company that works with electric cars and people with a disadvantage in the labour market, collects the containers for OneCircle (KeyKeg and UniKeg). GroenCollect collects these used containers in Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam and soon in The Hague. GroenCollect then separates the valuable plastic parts, these materials are then compacted into bales and collected by the plastic recycling specialist OneCircle. This way, the material from around 10,000 kegs can be transported by truck. OneCircle then processes most of these raw materials into plastic granules for the production of KeyKegs and UniKegs.

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