UK's No. 1 baby food will use SABIC recycled plastic to make bottle caps

SABIC has announced a new collaboration with British baby food brand Ella's Kitchen, which will use recycled plastic to make Ella Kitchen's organic strawberry fruit puree and bottle caps on apple puree bags
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More than 3.
5 million bags are expected to require replacement of the recycled plastic caps, which will hit store shelves in the UK in January 2022
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Ella's Kitchen's organic strawberry fruit puree, and the caps on the apple puree bags will be made from SABIC's recycled plastic
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(The picture comes from the official website of Ella Kitchen)

The cap's recyclable composition is SABIC's certified TRUCIRCLE recycled polymer, which is made from post-consumer waste plastic recycling
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These waste plastics are usually incinerated or landfilled
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Ella's Kitchen supplier Gualapack, a leader in self-supporting spout pouches for baby food packaging, uses the resin to produce caps
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According to reports, Ella’s Kitchen will be the first company in the baby food category to use certified circular polymers from the SABIC TRUCIRCLE product portfolio
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Abdullah Al-Otaibi, general manager of ETP and Market Solutions at SABIC, said: “We use advanced recycling technology to produce materials that can be used in high-quality food-grade packaging that can be upcycled again and again
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This collaboration will help reshape the food packaging ecosystem, a key step towards a circular economy for plastics
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Ella's Kitchen was established in the UK in 2006 and has now become the best-selling baby food in the UK, with a UK market share of about 31%
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Ella's Kitchen plans to achieve "net zero emissions" by 2030
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