Tetra Pak triples recycling capacity of beverage cartons

Tetra Pak and Stora Enso have recently joined forces to boost the recycling capacity of beverage cartons in Poland, with an investment of €29.1 million. The partnership, which follows a comprehensive feasibility study, sees the introduction of a largescale carton repulping line at Stora Enso's Ostrołęka production unit in Poland. The line will triple the annual recycling capacity of used beverage cartons in Poland from 25,000 to 75,000 tonnes. This will allow recycling of the entire volume of beverage cartons sold in the country as well as ones from neighbouring countries, including Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Stora Enso will invest €17 million into a new repulping line that will recover the carton fibres, while

Tetra Pak, along with Plastigram, will invest a total of €12.1 million to build an additional line. This will recover and separately recycle the polymers and the aluminium, using a patented separation technology. Both lines will be operational by the beginning of 2023.