Investment Can Bring Recycling Transformation Says Coca-Cola Enterprises

15 September 2011

Coca-Cola Enterprises has signalled that it is willing to invest further in recycling infrastructure as part of a drive to "transform recycling".

Speaking at the final day of RWM in partnership with CIWM, Coca-Cola Enterprises commercial recycling manager Nick Brown said that the company would consider investing in recycling infrastructure for cans and glass. The company has already set up a joint venture in place with ECO Plastics for producing recycled PET for use in plastic bottles, which is set to open in May 2012.

Asked if Coca-Cola Enterprises would consider further investments, he said: "We would be interested in investigating similar programmes with glass and cans."

Nick Brown was talking in the event's Commerce & Industry Theatre on the final day of the waste and recycling industry's leading show, which featured more than 650 exhibitors and more than 90 speakers in 72 seminar sessions.

In the talk, entitled "Reducing the Impact of our Packaging: Transforming Recycling", he outlined how Coca-Cola Enterprises is reducing its environmental impact by educating consumers, improving recycling collections and investing in infrastructure.

Supported by the Environmental Services Association (ESA), RWM in partnership with CIWM is the UK's biggest event for organisations with an interest in waste and recycling. Formed late last year from the merger of the successful Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition (RWM) and Futuresource shows, it has been designed to inform, improve and inspire organisations. It covers all areas of waste and recycling, from plant, vehicles and equipment to practical advice on how effective waste management can help to cut costs and turn waste into a valuable resource.

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Notes to Editors:

1. On 13-15 September 2011 at the NEC Birmingham, RWM in partnership with CIWM will represent the waste management industry's premier event following the merger of the Futuresource and RWM exhibitions in December 2010 in response to industry-wide demand.

2. RWM in partnership with CIWM attracts over 650 exhibitors. The event covers the following product/service areas within the industry: specialist recycling; services and solutions; energy and water; machinery and equipment; vehicles and plant, and banks, bins and containers. It is targeted at professionals within both public and private sectors, including: senior management decision makers (including managing directors, chief executive officers and chief operating officers); heads of recycling/waste; environmental managers; recycling managers; commercial waste managers; plant managers; transport managers; facilities managers, and consultants.

3. Emap Connect houses the UK's biggest exhibitions portfolio plus the world's most powerful advertising festival, Cannes Lions. Exhibition brands include RWM, Spring Fair, Autumn Fair, Premier Kids, Interbuild and BETT. Emap Connect facilitates face-to-face interaction for business communities, either to buy and sell things, to share knowledge or to scrutinise new business ideas. See www.emap.com

4. CIWM is the lead professional body for the sustainable resources and waste management sector representing over 7000 individuals in the UK and overseas. Established in 1898, CIWM is non profit-making and dedicated to promotion of professional competence - both in and around the sector - through best practice guidance, developing educational and training initiatives, and providing information on key waste-related issues. See www.ciwm.co.uk

5. ESA is the major trade association at the heart of the sustainable resources and waste management sector. See www.esauk.org

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Issued on behalf of RWM in partnership with CIWM