Eurokey by Reconomy, the international circular economy specialist, announces that it is set to open an £20m, 138,000 sq. ft bespoke plastic recycling facility in Corby, Northamptonshire.
The facility will be one of the UK’s largest dedicated plastic recycling plants focused on helping supermarkets, retailers and grocers recycle plastic material in a fully closed-loop system. The facility will receive several grades of plastic material that have been sorted at Eurokey’s state-of-the-art facility in nearby Kettering and recycle it into plastic pellets ready for manufacture into plastic packaging for supermarkets to use again.
Eurokey works with the UK’s largest supermarkets and retailers, and this investment will enable them to recycle plastic material domestically. At present, the UK remains heavily reliant on exporting plastic material due to the lack of domestic infrastructure capable of recycling this material at scale. This UK-based, closed loop solution will be an important enabler of the circular economy and will support the sustainability goals of Reconomy’s large supermarket clients.
One of the main advantages of this new site is its proximity to Eurokey’s sorting facility in Kettering– less than ten miles away – which will help reduce export dependency, lower transportation costs and associated carbon emissions, and cut reliance on virgin plastics.
