Coca-Cola and United Resource Recovery (URRC) are injecting life back into their US PET recycling plant after a six month project to overhaul operations. According to news reports, the joint venture, which makes food-grade pellets, was shut down last March. However, URRC president Carlos Gutierrez told FoodProductionDaily.com the Atlanta-based plant was never closed and that the firms had instead reduced operations while they modified some of the equipment at the bottle sorting line. Before the modifications, the firms were losing too much yield due to poor quality of the incoming post consumer collected bottles, said Gutierrez.
August 25, 2011
COCA-COLA REVIVES ITS US RECYCLING PLANT
Coca-Cola and United Resource Recovery (URRC) are injecting life back into their US PET recycling plant after a six month project to overhaul operations. According to news reports, the joint venture, which makes food-grade pellets, was shut down last March. However, URRC president Carlos Gutierrez told FoodProductionDaily.com the Atlanta-based plant was never closed and that the firms had instead reduced operations while they modified some of the equipment at the bottle sorting line. Before the modifications, the firms were losing too much yield due to poor quality of the incoming post consumer collected bottles, said Gutierrez.
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