South African PET producer responsibility organisation Petco has said its joint venture site with recycler Extrupet will come online in 2025, adding 15,000 t/yr of food-grade rPET capacity in the Western Cape region.
The site will cost 300mn rand ($17mn), according to the company, which said 64pc of South Africa's PET plastic bottles are collected for recycling.
Extrupet built the first bottle-to-food grade line in Johannesburg in 2009, with a second site in South Africa built in 2014.
Extrupet has recycling capacity of more than 60,000 t/yr according to Petco. A Petco member, Alpa, is expected to complete construction of a 35,000 t/yr PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant by the end of 2024.
