Charpak design and manufacture rigid plastic packaging which are made from the below materials:

 

Clear rPET

• Clear rPET plastic contains a minimum of 50% PCW (post consumer waste) and up to 25% in-process waste
• Charpak reprocesses it’s scrap back into material we purchase from our supply chain
• Clear rPET is widely recycled

 

Black rPET

• Contains 50% PCW and up to 25% in-process waste
• Charpak has a closed-loop system to ensure our waste goes back into our products
• Black rPET, whilst recyclable, is not widely recycled due to UK infrastructure issues, widely reported in the media
• As an industry (alongside retailers) we are actively devising a solution to this issue

 

Coloured PET (excluding black)

• Widely recycled and will nearly always be the basis of the post consumer waste in black rPET

 

CPET

• The industry is actively working to ensure that more CPET is recycled back into our products

 

PP

• Our product contains around 10% in-process recyclate material
• PP is recyclable, however, the UK does not currently have a way of recycling PP into formings for food contact – the common reuse is commercial and industrial