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Collection
Post-consumer plastic is recovered through collectors, aggregators, suppliers and collection partners.
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From Waste to Resource
Through EKT Trade and Investment PLC, post-consumer plastic is collected, aggregated, sorted, recycled, manufactured and returned to productive use. This integrated model creates industrial value from recovered materials while strengthening local collection, manufacturing and employment.
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How Our Circular Model Works
From collection to productive reuse.
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Aggregation
Recovered materials are consolidated and transported for industrial processing.
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Sorting
Materials are separated by polymer type, color and quality; unsuitable materials and contaminants are removed.
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Pre-Processing
Labels, caps and unwanted fractions are separated where required.
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Size Reduction
PET bottles are processed into flakes.
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Washing & Separation
Material passes through cleaning and separation stages designed to remove dirt, labels, adhesives and other contaminants.
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Quality Control
Processed material is evaluated according to the requirements of its intended downstream application.
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Manufacturing
Recovered material is converted into secondary raw materials and manufactured products.
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Reuse
Recovered material returns to productive economic use rather than being discarded.
The Circular Model
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Strategic Expansion
Closing the PET Loop in Ethiopia
EKT Trade and Investment PLC is advancing the next phase of its circular manufacturing strategy through the planned development of food-grade bottle-to-bottle recycled PET (rPET) production. The expansion is intended to enable post-consumer PET bottles collected in Ethiopia to be recovered, processed and returned to the packaging value chain as high-quality recycled material.
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