We operate our own recycling and reclaiming facility. With capacity to recycle 20,000 tons of PET plastic per year, it allows us to move closer to a full circle manufacturing process.

We’ve built personal relationships with North American MRFs (material recovery facilities) to source bales of post-consumer recycled PET bottles and mixed PET thermoformed containers. Our customers’ packaging is not garbage, but a valuable infinite resource. We want our packaging back!

At DPR we sort, wash, flake and clean the material again, so it is ready to be turned into yet another new package at one of our manufacturing sites. Using post-consumer recycled PET considerably reduces the carbon footprint of our products. Watch our DPR ambassadors explain the process.

Recycling Sustainability

Since 2020, Direct Pack Recycling has recycled over 105.7 million pounds of plastics  – not only bottles but also mixed thermoformed #1 PET containers – and repurposed them back into new packaging.

By Dec 2024, we have reprocessed a total of

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Full Circle Recycling

In our full circle process, we use post-consumer recycled PET bottles and thermoformed packaging to make new food containers. At Direct Pack Recycling we sort, wash and flake recycled PET material that then goes to one of our thermoforming facilities to be turned into new strawberry, lettuce, salad or take-out containers.

After use, our containers can be recycled again – they are not garbage, but a valuable infinite resource. Please recycle all your #1 PET packaging. We want our packaging back!

Featuring the Top 9 Recycled Packaging

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