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WRAP's (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Large Scale High-density polyethylene (HDPE) Recycling Trial involved partners including Dairy Crest, Nampak and Marks & Spencer and was managed by NexTek. It culminated in the successful development of world leading UK recycling technology that allows post-consumer milk bottles to be recycled back into food contact milk bottles, and WRAP wants to encourage plastics processors, packagers and retailers to adopt the new technology.

Paul Davidson, WRAP Plastics Technology Manager, comments: ?The milk bottles that the UK can produce as a result of this trial represent world's best practice in plastic bottle milk packaging and will save significant amounts of energy and greenhouses gases, as well as making a major contribution to landfill reduction as the technology spreads through the milk bottling industry.

The milk bottles produced using the WRAP process have a 30% recycled content and perform identically to virgin resin bottles. The rHDPE bottles, which are currently in production within UK dairies, have been extensively tested and have passed all EU, UK and consumer tests. WRAP has also recently received a 'non objection' notification for the process from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in America, further reinforcing the international significance of the technology.