The coffee capsules are made from polymers that are produced using an advanced recycling process to convert plastic waste into feedstock
Greiner Packaging and LyondellBasell will work together to produce coffee capsules using sustainable polymers. (Credit: LyondellBasell Industries Holdings B.V.)
Dutch chemical and plastic firm LyondellBasell has collaborated with plastic packaging manufacturer Greiner Packaging to provide a circular solution for coffee capsules.
Using advanced recycled post-consumer materials, LyondellBasell has developed polymers that are branded under CirculenRevive name.
These polymers are produced using an advanced recycling process to convert plastic waste into feedstock.
The feedstock is suitable for the production of new polymers using a mass balance approach.
Greiner Packaging CEO Manfred Stanek said: “We are very happy to realise this forward-looking project. It is our goal to use as much recycled material for our packaging as possible and we believe that we need to explore every opportunity to reach this goal and make our packaging more sustainable.
“Therefore, we are very pleased to be part of this project which also demonstrates the importance of the whole value chain working closely together.”
Greiner Packaging will provide support to use these polymers to make coffee capsules for Nestlé’s Nescafé Dolce Gusto, thereby helping to advance a circular economy for plastic.
LyondellBasell stated that these polymers meet the stringent requirements of the food industry and both firms’ sites are ISCC PLUS certified.
The mass balance method will help track how much advanced recycled material is entering the production process of CirculenRevive products.
LyondellBasell olefins and polyolefins Europe, Middle East, Africa and India senior vice president Richard Roudeix said: “CirculenRevive polymers help to address at scale the challenge of hard-to-recycle plastics.
“The advanced recycling technology can utilise used mixed plastic, which allows for larger volumes of plastic waste to return back into the value chain that would otherwise be destined for energy recovery or landfill.”
In August last year, Swiss dairy firm Emmi collaborated with Borealis and Greiner Packaging to produce chemically recycled polypropylene (PP) ready to drink iced coffee cups.