Indorama Ventures has introduced a Zero Waste to Landfill programme at PETValue Philippines, its recycling facility in Cavite.
The move forms part of its wider work in PET [polyethylene terephthalate] recycling through its IndoNova business, which processes used PET bottles into food-grade recycled PET (rPET).
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Bottle-to-bottle recycling remains the main activity at the site, while the new arrangement addresses waste streams left over from that process.
PETValue Philippines, a joint venture with Coca-Cola Europacific Aboitiz Philippines, has entered a partnership with Republic Cement & Building Materials for the initiative.
At the Cavite facility, PET bottles are recycled into new food-grade packaging.
Caps and labels that are not suitable for recycling are collected by ecoloop, Republic Cement’s resource recovery unit, and used as alternative fuel in cement production.
Indorama Ventures IndoNova recycling business head Pankaj Sinha said: “At IndoNova, we believe circularity doesn’t end when a bottle becomes a bottle again.
“We are continuously looking for new ways to recover value from every possible material throughout the recycling process. This partnership shows how innovation and collaboration can help eliminate waste, improve resource efficiency, and bring us closer to a truly circular economy.”
The companies said the set-up links PET recycling with cement-sector resource recovery to keep more material in use rather than sending it to landfill.
Indorama Ventures entered the sector in 2011 and has since recycled nearly 180 billion post-consumer PET bottles.
It currently processes more than 700 PET bottles per second.
Ecoloop director Angela Edralin-Valencia said: “We help our partners recover value from waste while reducing landfill dependency. This partnership with PETValue is a strong example of circularity in action.”
In March, Indorama Ventures, Nigerian Breweries, and Genesis Power & Energy Solutions agreed to establish a large-scale rPET facility in Lagos, Nigeria.
That plant is expected to have capacity of up to 45,000 tonnes per annum of food-grade rPET resin, with operations due to start in the first half of 2027.
