The yogurt and dairy dessert company Lactalis Nestlé has become a pioneer in incorporating recycled plastic from our Repsol Reciclex® range to manufacture its chilled dairy product bottles, thus taking another step in the transition towards the circular economy.

To manufacture this circular plastic, we use cutting-edge technologies that allow us to give new life to plastic waste that until now could not be mechanically recycled and enable its use in food containers. In addition, all our circular materials have the ISCC PLUS certification that ensures their traceability.

Since June this year, Lactalis Nestlé, the yogurt and dessert division of the Lactalis Group, has been using recycled plastic in its chilled dairy products bottles, which are made with our Repsol Reciclex® circular polyethylene. The company is a pioneer in using this material in the chilled dairy products category. This initiative constitutes an additional step towards the circularity of food contact packaging. 

Both companies are committed to sustainability and promoting the implementation of circular packaging for the food sector, one of the industries with the most technical and safety demanding requirements. Thanks to this agreement, the Nestlé Kefir range bottles produced in Guadalajara for Spain and Portugal are made with 30% recycled material. Similarly, the material used for the Yoggi brand drinking yogurt bottles, marketed in Portugal, contains 10% recycled material. Furthermore, these contents are certified according to the ISCC PLUS mass balance approach. 

To manufacture these circular materials, we use advanced recycling technologies that allow its use for food contact. This cutting-edge technology makes it possible to reuse plastic waste unsuitable for mechanical recycling, thus giving it a second life. Therefore, this waste becomes a new raw material for our processes, allowing the us to produce new circular materials with the same quality and functionality as virgin plastic but more sustainably. For this reason, these circular materials meet the food industry's highest quality and hygiene standards. 

The entire value chain, our company, as the supplier of the material, through Logoplaste, the manufacturer of the bottles in the Lactalis Nestlé factory in Guadalajara, and Lactalis Nestlé, as responsible for the product and the filling of the containers in Guadalajara, has the ISCC PLUS certification, which ensures the traceability of the recycled materials used throughout the process. 

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