{"id":251221,"date":"2025-07-09T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251221\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T16:38:10","slug":"new-70m-plastic-recycling-plant-at-battlefield-in-shrewsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/251221\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u00a370m plastic recycling plant at Battlefield in Shrewsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plant is expected to provide &#8220;tray to tray&#8221; closed-loop recycling for PET1 (polyethylene terephthalate) plastics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">PET1 includes water bottles and much of the food packaging we use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The closed-loop approach allows an object to be recycled into the same thing over and over again and is often regarded as the most efficient form of recycling. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The facility will shred, wash and flake PET plastic, which will be recycled into food grade low carbon new packaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This innovative facility not only advances our commitment to reducing waste and carbon emissions but also positions us to meet the growing demand for effective recycling as Simpler Recycling legislation comes into effect, ensuring more of this material is responsibly recycled for years to come,&#8221; said Estelle Brachlianoff, the company&#8217;s chief executive officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plant is expected to provide &#8220;tray to tray&#8221; closed-loop recycling for PET1 (polyethylene terephthalate) plastics. PET1 includes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-251221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114824263383387746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}