Food Grade Containers use SABIC Circular PP with Ocean Bound Plastic Content

18-Oct-24

SABIC® offers certified circular PP polypropylene made from advanced recycled ocean bound plastic (OBP). This helps reduce marine litter and accelerate circularity.

Sustainable material solution from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio meets demanding performance specifications for food contact approved vacuum containers.

SABIC reports that B!POD, a business unit of SAES Getters, has selected SABIC’s OBP-based polypropylene resin as the material for their containers. In close collaboration, the partners selected SABIC® PP 576P, a high-gloss grade from the company’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio of circular resins. The container material has an OBP feedstock content in the range of 50%.

The source of the OBP in SABIC’s material is abandoned used plastic collected in regions within 50 km of shorelines and then converted to plastic feedstock by means of advanced recycling. The PP resin produced with this recycle is supplied in natural color to C.E.L. (Costruzioni Elettromeccaniche Legnaghesi), a leading Italian player specializing in the processing of thermoplastic resins. C.E.L. adds special masterbatches to mold the B!POD containers in different sizes and several distinct custom colors. At the end of their service life, the reusable containers are fully recyclable in existing PP material streams.

Ginevra della Porta, Chief Innovation Officer at SAES Getters & co-founder of B!POD, comments: “This innovation embraces sustainability from the very concept to end use – with an advanced vacuum technology to minimize food waste, with SABIC’s OBP-based material that prevents used plastic from polluting our oceans, and with containers in a range of colors each dedicated to an endangered species, such as orangutan orange or whale grey, it is designed to raise the awareness of consumers.

Moreover, our market research has indicated that reusable rigid containers for food preservation can potentially eliminate the consumption of more than 300 non-recyclable plastic bags per person and year, which corresponds to a per capita release of 30 kg of CO2 to the atmosphere.”

The selected OPB-based SABIC PP 576P resin is a food contact approved grade, free of PFAS and BPA. It offers ease of processing and delivers dimensionally stable parts with low warpage, good impact strength and high gloss as molded. The ocean-bound plastic based solution is fully certified under the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS chain of custody.

The sustainable B!POD containers molded in OBP based SABIC PP has beenfully rolled out across the European Union, in Switzerland and the United Kingdom by mid-2024, with Asian countries to follow in 2025.

Source:-Sabic

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