Reconomy to open £20m plastic recycling plant in Corby. Reconomy's Eurokey brand is to open a £20m, 138,000 sq ft plastic recycling facility in Corby, Northamptonshire. The company says it will be one of the UK's largest plants dedicated to recycling supermarket plastic, handling 38,000 tonnes a year at full capacity.
The facility will receive sorted plastic from Eurokey's existing plant in Kettering, less than ten miles away, and convert it into pellets ready for manufacture into new packaging. Reconomy said the closed-loop system would reduce export dependency, lower transport emissions and cut reliance on virgin plastics. Latest government data shows only around 51 per cent of UK plastic packaging is recycled domestically.
The construction phase is almost complete and the site is expected to create more than 30 jobs. Mike Benton, Recycle Loop Managing Director at Reconomy, called the project "an exceptional milestone" for the company and the UK's plastics recycling industry.
