Rescued plastic

Local people in the communities who collect the plastic and bring it in for recycling are paid instantly and offered a chance to become entrepreneurs, and secure their livelihoods through creating their own aggregation sites and receiving investment for trucks to collect more.

Since 2014, kp purchased over 30,000 tonnes of rPET used by our factories in Santa Tirso in Portugal, Crumlin in Wales and Melbourne in Australia. What could have leaked into waterways or would have littered neighbourhoods is now used to create food packaging to protect food and reduce food waste. We are projecting growth in this supply over the coming months and years, ensuring that even more of our sourcing is helping to keep plastics out of the marine and land environment, while providing a stable income to those in deprived areas of the world – bringing sustainable social, environmental and economic benefit!