Dubai: Recycling opportunities are there. You just have to look for them. While options for recycling e-waste are growing, several solutions already exist for paper or metal, and now bottled water companies are taking back plastic bottles for recycling.
Masafi has launched a Corporate Recycling Programme to collect all plastic bottles irrespective of brand from companies with more than 200 employees for free. So far 119 businesses have signed up and Masafi has collected nearly 500 tonnes of plastic bottles.
Natascha Edelmann, head of marketing at Masafi, said the collected plastic bottles are cleaned and crushed in Masafi's pre-processing unit and then recycled in Fujairah into non-food packaging products such as egg cartons.
Masafi has introduced Oxo biodegradable films in its shrink-wrap packaging for water bottles across the UAE and Kuwait. The new packaging degrades within two years and offers an ecological alternative to conventional wraps — which take up to 400 years to break down. The water bottle collection is open to companies employing at least 200 people. Once signed up, Masafi will install plastic bottle recycling bins on the premises and periodically visit for collection.
"Our programme focuses on all our plastic bottles — not only the 1.5 litres and the 15gallon bulk water containers but also the smaller ones such as the 500ml, 330ml etc. Moreover, we collect all PET bottles for recycling from our partners and they need not be only Masafi consumers," said Edelmann.
Contact
To get your office water bottles recycled call Masafi on 800 5455
