{"id":112564,"date":"2016-02-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112564\/mpact-recycling-operation-produces-safe-food-packaging-materials\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T13:10:03","slug":"mpact-recycling-operation-produces-safe-food-packaging-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/03\/mpact-recycling-operation-produces-safe-food-packaging-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Mpact recycling operation produces safe food packaging materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mpact\u2019s R350-million state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling operation in Wadeville, Germiston, announced recently that its recycling process complies with the European Union (EU) Food Safety Authority specifications.<\/p>\n<p>The recycling operation produces recycled PET (rPET) plastic for food grade packaging.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Mpact Polymers can confirm that it&#8217;s recycled PET plastic has been tested by the Fraunhofer Institute in Munich, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Now fully operational under the name Mpact Polymers, this bottle-to-bottle grade operation forms part of their mission to reduce the PET industry\u2019s impact on the environment.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles you might be interested in<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90266\/why-you-should-recycle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why you should recycle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89518\/new-phoenixpet-plant-opens-in-wadeville\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Phoenix PET Plant opens in Wadeville<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='38e200a987479ddb4830b44939db16bd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mpact\u2019s R350-million state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling operation in Wadeville, Germiston, announced recently that its recycling process complies with the European Union (EU) Food Safety Authority specifications. The recycling operation produces recycled PET (rPET) plastic for food grade packaging. Mpact Polymers can confirm that it&#8217;s recycled PET plastic has been tested by the Fraunhofer Institute &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":90267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Mpact aims to reduce their environmental impact.","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8297,1012,1106,979,9641,1710],"class_list":["post-112564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-juliana-louw","tag-recycle"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","GCN","germiston","Juliana Louw","recycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}