Coca-Cola’s ‘PET’ project

Beverage maker Coca-Cola India along with one of its bottlers, Moon Beverages signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a recycling outfit, Harit Recyclers Association, for rolling out a project for recycling  The project, to be implemented in the Delhi NCR region, will collect, process and recycle waste in the region. The facility will be managed by volunteers and self help groups and will aim to recycle over 1,500 tonnes of PET bottles. Key locations such as parks, supermarkets, hotels and hospitals, tourist points, schools, restaurants, malls, movie theatres and housing complexes have been identified to collect the empty bottles. This would then be brought to the collection and processing centre, sorted, crushed and converted into flakes. The flakes will be given to firms for making PET bottles.