16 Mar 2022 --- As part of a supply chain project, WRAP Cymru (Wales) has taken hard to recycle items and converted them into new items, including turning single-use coffee cups into waterproof building materials and decking. The project is funded by the Welsh Government. The two-year trial brought together several companies, including recycling pioneer Nextek and UK composite decking manufacturer Ecodek. The companies created the “world’s first” composite decking made from single-use coffee cups combined with metallized films, such as those used for chip packets. Ecodek’s new 100% recycled decking can turn 200 coffee cups into a square meter of new decking, which means the project has the potential to recycle a “substantial” part of the post-consumer single-use plastic coffee cups that currently go to landfill or incineration, says the company.
