Coca-Cola Philippines is expanding its initiatives under the global sustainable packaging program World Without Waste .
The company on Friday announced its P2-billion PET Value recycling facility, the country’s first, is 100-percent operational.
Located in General Trias, Cavite, PETValue has a projected capacity of processing approximately 2 billion pieces of used clear PET plastic bottles
In his message at a recent company event, Tony del Rosario, president of Coca-Cola Philippines and vice president for the East Franchise Operations of Coca-Cola Asean and South Pacific, said the company will move to transition select Coca-Cola Original Taste and Wilkins Pure packaging to 100 percent recycled PET plastic (rPET) packaging (excluding caps and labels).
The company also announced it is supporting the set-up of over 800 collection points for used PET plastic bottles nationwide.
Clear plastic bottles–regardless of brand–that are collected from partners and collection points will be recycled at PETValue Philippines. The locally produced recycled PET resin straight from the facility will be used for Coca-Cola brands in recycled PET plastic packaging–thus creating a circular economy for the company’s packaging in the Philippines.
The company will transition key brands Coca-Cola Original Taste and Wilkins Pure to 100 percent recycled PET plastic packaging (excluding caps and labels) by 2023.
These new packaging formats will expand the company’s line-up of products in recycled plastic packaging in the Philippines. The company continues to utilize returnable glass bottles for approximately 50 percent of its products in the Philippines.
