Panda Bottle-to Bottle Plastic Recycling Plant Nears Operation

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Ballymount, Dublin-headquartered waste and recycling company, Panda, announced that its bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling plant is due to be up and running by the end of 2021. The new plastics recycling facility is being built at a cost of €20m and is expected to create up to 100 jobs.

According to the company, the new plant will boost domestic collection and recycling of plastic bottles, instead of them being exported into other countries. The new facility may even help the country to avoid exports of these materials. As per rough estimates, nearly 20,000 tonnes of drinking water and soft drinks bottles are exported to the UK and Europe every year.

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Reportedly, Panda has already started negotiations with bottling companies towards collecting and processing of used bottles to produce materials to manufacture new bottles.

Environment Minister Eamon Ryan hoped that the new facility would ensure that the collected bottles are converted into new bottles. The project demonstrates how the green economy can be a source of employment in the future. The Panda facility will be one among many efforts undertaken by the government to help the country fight against plastic pollution, he added.