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Reliance Industries announces expansion of its PET recycling capacity

MUMBAI: Indian multinational conglomerate, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) today said that it is doubling its PET recycling capacity by setting up a recycled polyester staple fiber (PSF) manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh. 

RIL’s initiative to more than double its recycling capacity to 5 billion post-consumer PET bottles will ensure India maintains over 90% recycling rate. RIL is focusing on sustaining India’s post-consumer PET recycling rate which is currently the highest in the world. At present, RIL converts more than 2 billion post-consumer PET bottles into fibers annually.

RIL currently recycles PET bottles at its Barabanki, Hoshiarpur and Nagothane plants. The post-consumer PET bottles are used as a raw material for manufacturing re-cycled polyester fiber. The fibers manufactured through this process are branded as Recron GreenGold and RIL through its Hub Excellence Partners (HEP) (selected downstream mills) manufactures R | Elan GreenGold fabrics, one of the greenest fabrics in the world.

As a part of this decision, plastic recycling and waste management company Srichakra Ecotex India will build and operate exclusively for RIL the new recycled PSF – Recron GreenGold and PET Flakes Wash-Line in Andhra Pradesh. 

The move is a part of RIL’s commitment to lead the industry on the circular economy, enhance its sustainability quotient and bolster the entire polyester and polymer value chain, RIL has said in a media release. 

The release said that initiative would empower entrepreneurs to divert post-consumer used packaging from landfills, set up recycling facilities and create wealth from the waste throughout the country, it added. 

"RIL's initiative to more than double its recycling capacity to 5 billion post-consumer PET bottles will ensure (that) India maintains over 90 per cent (of) recycling rate. RIL is focusing on sustaining India’s post-consumer PET recycling rate, which is currently the highest in the world," the company said. 


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