Recycle Activities, continued

Coca-Cola Amatil - Closed-Loop Recycling of PET

Since 1998, Coca-Cola Amatil has invested more than $100 million in plants and equipment, to establish a PET reformation plant in Sydney, Australia and a number of PET bottle manufacturing facilities in Australia and Oceania.

Using world-first technology, CCA closed the loop on its PET packaging so that every soft drink bottle manufactured by the Company contains at least 25% recycled content. This benefits the environment and the community by reducing the amount of material going to landfill, creating jobs, and lowering the amount of virgin PET imported and used.

CCA recovers PET from the community via extensive kerbside collection programs in Australia and New Zealand, as well as collection systems in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. CCA purchases these post-consumer plastic bottles and containers from local councils, local government contractors and recyclers. Consumers play a key role in the recycling initiative and CCA would like consumers to think of beverage bottles as being 'on loan' - CCA wants them back!

CCA's recycling and reformation initiative is a six-stage process that forms a continuous loop:

1. Consumer recycling
2. Kerbside collection, transport & sorting
3. The reforming process
4. Preform and Blow Moulding
5. Bottle filling and distribution
6. Buying recycled products

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