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22 January 2019

REKS picked up big in local press

Kosovo recycling company REKS is a joint venture between KIVO Flexible Plastics and Kras Recycling.

Read the detailed article in Edam-Volendam's local newspaper here.

The process starts at Kras Recycling. This company collects plastic waste from other companies and then transports it to the REKS recycling company in Kosovo. There, it is manually sorted, washed and regenerated into a recycled raw material. KIVO Kosovo turns it into a finished product and can sell it in large volumes at attractive prices. This creates a "closed loop", a circular way of working.

It is likely to go much further in the future. An example: KIVO currently supplies hundreds of thousands of kilos of collection bags to a large supermarket chain. Kras then collects the plastic waste from that same supermarket chain and brings it to Kosovo. There, KIVO turns them into recycled bags, which we then sell back to that supermarket chain. So that supermarket chain will soon have new collection bags made from its own plastic waste. That is sustainable and much cheaper.

See the article in the North Holland daily below!

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