Plastic bottle for plastic bottle

Dinos is the largest company for collecting and processing of non-hazardous waste in Slovenia. Dinos is also a service provider in the field of packaging and packaging waste. The sustainable project, called “Plastic bottle for plastic bottle” involved 3 companies, i. e. Dinos, GastroPET and Fructal. Dinos is a company which collects packaging waste, sorts it and deliver waste plastic bottles to GastroPET. GastroPET is a production company, which recycles plastic bottles and forms a recycled material RPET. Recycled raw materials are processed into PET preforms, which are blowed into new plastic bottles in company Fructal. Fructal company fills the bottles with the beverage and send them to the market. All plastic bottles, placed on the market by Fructal, consists of recycled materials, which is supplied by Dinos and recycled by GastroPET. Once on the market, Dinos takes care through their promotion and environmental awareness activities that plastic bottles are collected (e. g. in public institutions). Those plastic bottles that are considered waste (due to non-compliance with the technical standards) and those collected through dedicated waste-collecting programmes (including schools), are returned back to Dinos and are further processed. This is how these companies made their material loop is closed. And the circle goes again and again.