Sabic & Schwarz Group to start pilot project for Trucircle vegetable bags

Saudi Arabia-based Sabic, a diversified chemical manufacturer, has embarked on a pilot project with Schwarz Group, Europe’s largest retail store operator, to use transparent film bags made from certified circular polyethylene (PE) in vegetable packaging. According to the company, the project will include various PE technologies from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio based on materials produced via feedstock recycling of mixed and used plastic. Through this project, 1 kg bags for organic carrots, made of flexible film using Sabic’s certified circular polyethylene, will be introduced between October and December 2020 by the retail group into selected stores operating under the Lidl and Kaufland brands in Germany. Sabic’s Trucircle certified circular polymers in the pilot project include both low-density and linear low-density polyethylene (LDPE/LLDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and Super metallocene polyethylene (mPE) resins. “Our comprehensive strategy is to make all Lidl and Kaufland brand plastic packaging as recyclable as possible by 2025, thereby reducing overall plastic consumption by 20%,” states Dietmar Böhm, managing director of GreenCycle, which serves as waste management and recycling service provider for Schwarz Group…

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