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Sustain Wales Summit - Bettina Gilbert, WRAP Cymru
The document outlines WRAP Cymru's mission to promote sustainable resource use in Wales, focusing on innovative design, production, and recycling practices. It highlights key projects from 2007 to 2014 that advanced the use of recycled materials in plastic packaging and established new recycling processes. WRAP Cymru aims to collaborate with local organizations to create a sustainable system for plastics.
Sustain Wales Summit - Bettina Gilbert, WRAP Cymru
- 1. A Plastics RouteMap for Wales Bettina Gilbert Programme Manager, WRAP Cymru
- 2. WRAP’s vision is a worldin which resources are used sustainably
- 3. Our mission isto accelerate the move to a sustainable resource-efficient economy through: • Re-inventing how we design, produce and sell products • Re-thinking how we use and consume products • Re-defining what is possible through re-use and recycling. Find out more at wrap.org.uk
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- 5. In 2007 WRAPworked with Marks & Spencer, Coca-Cola and Boots on the UK’s first trials to use, and declare, significant levels of recycled post consumer material in PET packaging… Using recycled content in plastic packaging: the benefits, WRAP 2007
- 6. …and worked withNextek, Viridor and the Co-op to create black plastics that could be detected by (NIR) recycling technology. In-market trial to prove recycling process for black CPET trays, WRAP 2013
- 7. WRAP led workto develop the world’s first process to recycle HDPE milk bottles into food grade rHDPE for use in new milk bottles… Using recycled polymers in new products: a business opportunity, WRAP 2014
- 8. But what are wedoing now?
- 9. Together we cancreate a sustainable system for plastics
- 10. Together we cancreate a sustainable system for plastics
- 13. WRAP Cymru will continueour pioneering work by collaborating with Welsh organisations…
- 14. Sony Corporation WRAP CymruTechnical Support
- 15. Working together tomake the right choices
- 16. Contact us WRAP Cymru CarlyleHouse Ty Carlyle 5-7 Cathedral Road 5-7 Heol y Gadeirlan Cardiff Caerdydd CF11 9HA www.wrapcymru.org.uk Bettina Gilbert bettina.gilbert@wrap.org.uk