15 December 2023

Victoria’s biggest PET plastic bottle recycling plant opens for business in Melbourne

A new $50 million facility capable of recycling the equivalent of up to one billion 600ml PET plastic beverage bottles a year has commenced operations in Melbourne, coinciding with the start of Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme. The Circular Plastics Australia (PET) plant will convert used beverage bottles, into high-quality food-grade resin, which is then used […]

15 December 2023

Victoria’s biggest PET plastic bottle recycling plant opens for business in Melbourne

30 June 2023

Circular Plastics Australia (PET) recognised as Sustainability Leader

Circular Plastics Australia (PET) is proud to be named as one of The Australian Financial Review’s Sustainability Leaders for 2023 in manufacturing and consumer goods for its two state-of-the-art PET plastic bottle recycling facilities. The joint venture partnership between Pact Group, Cleanaway Waste Management, Asahi Beverages and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners opened the first of […]

News | 27 March 2023

Circular Plastics Australia (PET) Wins 2022 National Project Management Achievement Award

Circular Plastics Australia (PET) is delighted to have won the Sustainability Category at the 2022 National Project Management Achievement Awards for its PET recycling plant in Albury. The plant, which was built in just 370 days, is a joint venture between Pact Group Holdings Ltd, Cleanaway Waste Management, Asahi Beverages, and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners. With […]

News | 19 May 2022

Circular Plastics Australia (PET) Albury Wins Sustainability Excellence Award

Australia’s newest and largest PET plastic recycling plant has won a sustainability excellence award for creating a game-changing, closed loop operation which will have the capacity to recycle about 1 billion 600ml PET beverage bottles a year. The Circular Plastics Australia (PET) facility in Albury-Wodonga commenced operations in March this year to produce high-quality […]

11 March 2022

The Circular Plastics Australia (PET) facility in Albury-Wodonga is officially opened

The largest PET recycling plant in the country is now up and running and will substantially reduce Australia’s plastic waste by recycling the equivalent of around 1 billion PET beverage bottles each year. The $45 million plant in Albury-Wodonga has boosted regional jobs and is helping to build a domestic circular economy, along with increasing […]

News | 20 January 2022

New Recycling Plant To Be Built In Melbourne’s West

A new PET plastic recycling facility will be built in Altona North by a cross-industry partnership, with the facility set to be the largest of its kind in Victoria upon completion. Pact Group, Cleanaway, Asahi Beverages and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) have formed a joint venture to build and operate the facility, which will drive […]

News | 16 August 2021

New PET recycling facility to be built by industry partnership

Pact Group, Cleanaway, Asahi Beverages and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) have announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a joint venture that will build and operate a new PET recycling facility. Under the MOU, the parties intend to come together to provide an industry model for recycling solutions in Australia. This […]

News | 25 July 2021

New $38 million Laverton plastic recycling plant creates new jobs and reinvents recycling in Victoria

This state of the art facility will process more than 20,000 tonnes or the equivalent of over 500 000K plastic milk bottles and food tubs collected from household recycling bins into food grade resins and will be located at Cleanaway’s recycling facility at Laverton. This joint venture between Pact and Cleanaway complements the existing PET […]

News | 05 February 2021

Australia’s largest PET recycling plant now under construction in Albury-Wodonga

Environment Minister and Federal Member for Farrer, the Hon. Sussan Ley MP, today marked the official start of construction by turning the first sod on-site at the project, which is being delivered in a joint venture between Asahi Beverages, Pact Group Holdings Ltd and Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd. The $45 million plant – in the […]

News | 03 August 2020

New $45 Million Albury/Wodonga Recycling Plant to Build a Domestic Circular Economy and Boost Regional Jobs

The decision to build the world-class facility in Albury/Wodonga was confirmed yesterday after Pact Group Holdings Ltd, Cleanaway Waste Management Ltd and Asahi Beverages formally entered a joint venture to deliver the project. It will create dozens of direct jobs when construction starts in coming months. It is anticipated the facility will recycle the equivalent […]

News | 18 February 2020

Pact, Cleanaway and Asahi Beverages announce intention to jointly develop a plastic palletising facility to close the loop and contribute to a circular economy

It is anticipated that the facility will process up to 28,000 tonnes of plastic bottles and other recyclables into flake and food grade pellets which will be used as a raw material for the production of packaging for food and beverages. The cross-value chain collaboration uniquely combines the expertise of each participant. Cleanaway will provide […]

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