Bariq recoSTAR PET ART Recycling Line

Founded in 2011, Bariq is the first food-grade rPET producer in Egypt and the biggest in the MENA region. The company started production of food-grade rPET in 2012. Bariq facility is located in CPC Industrial Park on the 6th of October city, Giza. Bariq uses post-consumer PET bottles from Municipal Solid Waste that would otherwise go to landfill or burned. Bariq produces recycled pallets ready to be used in the injection-blowing industry for bottles. Bariq holds a positive EFSA opinion (see EFSA Certificates in the following LINK) and an FDA Letter of Non-Objection (LNO). Health Canada approval, REACH & GRS compliant PET pellets. Bariq'I's facility is compliant with BRC and SEDEX. Bariq decided to expand its capacities and increase its contribution to fighting climate change by installing a new recycling line "recoSTAR PET ART" first of its kind in the Middle East to increase its capacity from 15,000 tonnes to 33 tonnes annually (please see Attestation Letter from Starlinger in this LINK). This will be done in October 2023 and will operate its second recycling line Starlinger "recoSTAR PET ART", which will raise its production capacity to 33,000 tonnes. Bariq is currently recycling 1.6 billion PET bottles per year and a total of 15 billion PET bottles since its establishment which contributed to saving more than 260,000 tons of CO2. Bales of PET bottles are received from collected & sorted municipal waste. The bales must only contain post-consumer PET bottles. Each batch received is checked to make sure that it doesn’t contain more than 5% PET bottles that are coming from non-food content (Detergents, cosmetics, etc.). The material is further sorted in an automated pre-sorting line to remove labels, caps, and other non-PET materials if present. The sorted material is then transferred to the cold washing stage to remove any remaining label, sand, or dirt attached to the bottle body. After that, the bottles are sorted by second automated machines to remove colored, non-PET bottles, metals, and any contaminants. The sorted materials are then shredded into flakes which are transferred by pipe to a floating tank to remove labels and caps (poly olefine separation). These shredded flakes are hot-washed with water (90°C) and caustic soda. After drying the flakes, it transferred to another grinder equipped with sieving screens to remove the dust and homogenize the size of the flakes. These flakes are transferred to the 3rd automated sorting stage (2 machines) (optical sorter machine followed by polymer sorter machine) and finally, the shredded flakes are packed into big bags. The flakes pre-processed through the mentioned method are then decontaminated using Starlinger technology. This consists of a pelletizing unit, an inline crystallizer, and a solid-state polycondensation unit (SSP). The CDU, EX, CRY, and SSP are the critical stages for the decontamination of the material. The critical parameters that are relevant for decontamination are temperature, residence time, and vacuum level at different stages of the process. (please see Line Description in the following LINK) Each production batch is tested as per Bariq’s Quality control procedures which define procedures for operation and troubleshooting. Quality checks are carried out as per the quality manual to ensure that the material has been produced meeting the specifications of the process for the entire batch. The rPET produced by the above-mentioned procedure is then packed into big bags of (1200) kg and labeled with the respective batch numbers and production date.

Project ID

GS12496

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Waste Recycling · Waste Management

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

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Developer

Bariq for Techno & Advances Infustries · 2 projects

Country

Egypt

First vintage

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Crediting period

2024-01-12 to 2034-01-11

Estimated yearly credits

20,851

Scale

Small Scale · Standalone

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 4: Quality Education · Goal 14: Life Below Water · Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption · Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities · Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth · Goal 15: Life On Land

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

The registry gives Egypt as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.