Tetra Pak Invests in New Carton Recycling Facilities

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Tetra Pak joined hands with recyclers and industry players to investe approximately €11.5 million in establishing four recycling facilities for carton packages in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and Australia. These new facilities will enable recycling of all components of a used carton package.

The press release says that Tetra Pak will build recycling capacity from scratch in Saudi Arabia. The existing Turkish recycling facility will be expanded by 50%, whereas the production capacity at Ukraine facility will be nearly tripled. Also, the company will leverage a public/private partnership in Australia.

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Upon full operation, the four facilities together will be capable of processing around 45,000 tonnes of additional carton packages. This will enable global carton packaging recycling to exceed 50 billion per year.

Lars Holmquist, EVP for Sustainability and Communications, Tetra Pak noted that the investments in collaboration with food manufacturers, municipalities and recyclers are a testament to the need of a joint drive to achieve the ultimate ambition of a world which collects and recycles all carton packages with nothing ending up as litter.

Over the past decade, Tetra Pak has been actively investing and partnering with others to boost carton package recycling in over 170 global recycling facilities.