Dunedin firm Packit Packaging sales director Jan Swann at yesterday's launch of a city trial to recycle number 5 plastics: light, rigid plastic containers for ice cream and other foods. PHOTOS: PETER MCINTOSHDunedin firm Packit Packaging, which makes plastic food containers, has been praised by the plastics industry for its innovative public trial, launched in the city yesterday, to encourage recycling of polypropylene food containers. New Zealand has long had a successful, internal business-to-business recycling programme for number 5 plastics: light, rigid plastics used in food containers like ice cream and yoghurt pottles. The initiative also showed "we care'' and met a growing public demand for recycling, they said. But after China recently largely stopped importing the plastics, Packit wanted to help, he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 25, 2019 15:45 UTC