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Uflex sets up plastic packaging recycling plant in Noida

26 Feb 2020 – UFlex Limited has announced that it is scaling up its recycling strength to help build a circular economy, by the way of setting up two lines that will wash and recycle post-consumer waste and multi-layer packaging scrap.

This pilot plant in its Noida facility is aimed to mitigate the piling plastic dumps in Delhi–NCR by recycling collected post-consumer waste PET bottles and multi-layer plastic packaging into chips and granules, put into further use to make products with economic value. The plant has the capacity to recycle 9600 tonnes of PET bottles and 10,000 tonnes of multi-layer plastic waste per annum. Uflex claims to manufacture more than 100 products using the recycled plastic waste. In line with its global sustainability campaign ‘Project Plastic Fix’, UFlex will steer its efforts towards keeping plastic in the economy and out of the environment, converting waste into wealth.

Uflex is running a similar line in Bengaluru that sorts out 600 metric tonnes of garbage every day. It further has plans to start a recycling line in Varanasi that will recycle 200 tonnes of waste a day.

On the launch of this facility, Mr Jeevaraj Pillai, joint president of Packaging & New Product Development at UFlex, said: “The problem of discarded plastic is escalating and alarming. India alone generates 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste every day. Need of the hour is to enable a system where plastic is collected, properly cleaned and then recycled.Our Noida plant is one such initiative that we have made in this direction to solve the plastic waste crisis around us and Delhi-NCR is set to benefit from it. With recycling plants as this coming up at various locations, UFlex will have a capacity to recycle more than 3000 MT of plastic waste a month and we aim to build the largest infrastructure for recycling of plastic waste.”

Dinesh Jain, president of legal and corporate affairs at UFlex adds, “We believe in co-existence of sustainability and business, and it is incumbent on us to take care of our environment with ethical and safe practices such that the utility of our product persists without any harm to the environment. We have ensured that these two lines follow a zero-emission practice to convert MLP and PET bottles waste into recoverable.”

Washing-recycling lines at Noida plant includes:

  • PET Bottle Line (PCR Line) – The Post Consumer Recyclate (PCR line) at UFlex is set up with the objective to recycle PET bottles, used and discarded by consumers, to form chips. The PET bottles will go through the process of crushing and washing and will finally get dried up before it reaches the extruder to form chips. Since the PET bottles are transparent and virgin in nature, chips derived as a result of recycling process will further be upcycled to manufacture a range of PCR grade BOPET film from UFlex called Asclepius. The Asclepius film can be used and reused for multiple applications like packaging and label material. The line has the capacity to recycle up to 600 metric tons of clear PET bottles per month.The PCR line will also recycle used PET bottles collected by NGOs and Waste Collection Agencies from Delhi NCR area. 
  • The MLP Film Line (PCPR Line) – The other UFlex line is called its postconsumer plastic recyclate (PCPR) for multilayered plastic (MLP) film. The PCPR line will wash and recycle post-consumer MLP scrap and convert it into granules via a process of shredding, washing and drying.The granules derived can be used to form more than 10,000 industrial and household products like flower pots, outdoor furniture, bucket, dustbins, paver tiles, road dividers etc.The post-consumer MLP waste collected from Delhi-NCR is sourced from NGOs, producer responsibility organizations (PRO) as well as producers and brand owners directly. The PCPR line has a capacity to wash and recycle upto 500 tonnes of MLP waste in a month.