The Coca-Cola Company and Mpact Polymers envision a world without waste, and want you to do your part too.
Henry Peek, regional manager at Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA), takes guests through the distribution plant which houses millions of products a day, ready to be transported to consumers.
Different types of pellets and flakes pinned inside the lab.
A preform, created by dosing 10 per cent of rPET into virgin PET.
Shannon van der Merwe, quality assurance manager at Mpact Polymers, shows the GCN part of the machinery used to cut the strands of PET into pellets, ready to be bagged.
Henry Peek, regional manager at Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA), takes guests through the distribution plant which houses millions of products a day, ready to be transported to consumers.
Inside the bottling plant where preforms are turned into bottles, ready to once again hold beverages.
Metal removed by magnets in the first phase of the recycling process. The metal will be recycled elsewhere.
Sand and dirt removed from the bottles.
The water heater which is part of phase seven where flakes are washed over three stages.
The dryer is set to dry flakes before they are melted.
Florah Rabodiba, a lab technician at Mpact Polymers, checks pellets for deformities.
What pellets look like before they are turned into preforms.
Virgin PET to be dosed with 10 per cent of rPET to create a preform.