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ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.plasticstoday.com/sites/all/themes/penton_subtheme_plasticstoday/images/logos/footer.png\nis part of the Division of Informa PLC\nResin Pricing\nSee All Business »\nExtrusion: Film & Sheet\nExtrusion: Pipe & Profile\nAdditives/Colorants\nSee All Materials »\nAdvanced Recycling\nMechanical Recycling\nWaste to Fuel\nSee All Sustainability »\nHome>Packaging\nBreaking News in Flexible Packaging\nIndevco Plastics Introduces Circular Collation Shrink Film\nBemis Manufacturing Buys Bio Bidet\nArburg Acquires Longtime Electric Drive Partner AMK\nA Bold Move by Mold Maker IGS, and Other News from the Plastics Supply Chain\nNestlé Waters signs agreement with recycled PET supplier CarbonLITE\nTAGS: Sustainability Recycling Materials\nCarbonLITE (Los Angeles, CA) announced it will expand U.S. operations to meet demand.\nClare Goldsberry | Nov 19, 2018\nNestlé Waters North America (Stamford, CT) announced that it has signed a “significant agreement” with recycled PET (rPET) supplier CarbonLITE (Los Angeles, CA), and that CarbonLITE will expand its U.S. operations by building a third facility in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania.\nThe new contract builds upon Nestlé Waters’ existing relationship with CarbonLITE, one of the largest producers of food-grade, post-consumer rPET, and allow the beverage company to further expand use of recycled materials in its packaging. The company currently purchases rPET from CarbonLITE’s existing facilities in California and Texas.\n“We are pleased that CarbonLITE will be locating a facility in a region important to our manufacturing footprint,” said Bill Trackim, Vice President, Head of Supply Chain and Procurement at Nestlé Waters North America. “Being able to purchase rPET in the area helps us better support the regional economy while promoting environmental sustainability through the use of renewable and recyclable materials in our packaging.”\nCarbonLITE anticipates the facility will be in full production by early 2020, and will have the ability to recycle more than two billion post-consumer bottles a year. The new 200,000-square-foot processing facility is anticipated to save 60,000 tons of carbon annually by using post-consumer materials and produce 80 million pounds per year of food-grade rPET pellets.\n“Nestlé Waters continues to be a leader in sustainability efforts,” said Leon Farahnik, Chairman of CarbonLITE Industries LLC. “We are proud to have grown with them for the past seven years and proud to expand our relationship in our state-of-the-art facility in Pennsylvania.\nNestlé Waters, which has two bottling facilities in the Lehigh Valley, uses recycled plastic in a number of its brands including Nestlé Pure Life and Deer Park, which are bottled locally. The company has been increasing the amount of rPET it uses in its packaging since 2011; in February 2018, Nestlé Waters launched a 700-ml Nestlé Pure Life bottle made of 100% rPET. In California, all of the company’s single-serve sizes of Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water and Nestlé Pure Life bottles produced in the state are made with 50% rPET.\nNestlé Waters’ parent company, Nestlé SA, is a signatory of the recently announced New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. An initiative of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UN Environment, the global commitment is an agreement to ensure that 100% of plastic packaging can be reused, recycled or composted by 2025.\nContribute to the Site\nPackaging Digest\nMD+DI\nPowder & Bulk Solids\nCopyright © 2021. All rights reserved. , a trading division of Informa PLC."