Coop Lombardia with Coripet for the recycling of PET bottles

Following the agreement signed between Coop Lombardia and Coripet, a voluntary non-profit consortium whose mission is the collection and recycling of PET bottles after their use, in the Coop Lombardia stores in via Cecilio in Como and in via Lecco in Monza, the ‘bottle to bottle’ circular economy project kicks off, i.e. generating Rpet from bottles used to make new bottles. Starting today, thanks to the installation of a Coripet eco-compactor in the points of sale indicated, the members of Coop Lombardia can deliver their PET bottles to send them for recycling and at the same time obtain discount coupons on shopping. With the aid of the Coripet app, downloadable from smartphones, associated with the Coop Member card, members can access the ‘plastic-eating’ machine, insert the bottles, which must be empty, not crushed, with cap, label and bar code readable, and earn points. The more bottles are awarded, the more points are accumulated to be entitled to discount coupons on shopping. The Sup (Single Use Plastic) Directive, which entered into force on January 14, 2022, in addition to banning disposable items, regulates the end of life of PET bottles and, for the first time, both collection objectives are indicated , that of using RPet in the production of new bottles. There are two challenging objectives for the Italian system: by 2025 the territories will have to collect at least 77% of post-consumer PET bottles and 90% in 2030. At the same time, those who use these containers to sell their products will have the obligation to produce them with at least 25% of Pet recycled by 2025 and 30% in 2030. “From today we have an additional tool in the Coop stores in Como and Monza (via Lecco) that allows us to further improve the daily commitment to separate waste collection from part of Coop customers with a reward system – comments Alfredo De Bellis, vice president of Coop Lombardia – the more bottles are given, the more shopping vouchers are accumulated. As a cooperative that has always been sensitive to environmental policies, we hope that with the installation of eco-compactors it will grow more the sensitivity and attention of customers to these issues “. For Corrado Dentis, president of Coripet, “the launch of the partnership with Coop Lombardia marks a further important step for the consortium, as another major player in large-scale distribution in Italy joins and shares our circular economy project. within this project, the citizen is the true protagonist of our vision and our mission as he is increasingly aware that with a simple gesture, which is to start recycling the PET bottles, he helps the environment and saves on the trolley expense”.