PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCT), a U.S.-based company revolutionizing plastic recycling, announced a partnership with Plastic Ingenuity, a leading manufacturer of custom thermoformed packaging for the food, healthcare and retail industries. Through this collaboration, Plastic Ingenuity has incorporated PureCycle's PureFive® resin into its coffee lid production. The lids range in recycled content from 25 to 100%. This initiative reinforces Plastic Ingenuity’s commitment to delivering high-performance, sustainable packaging solutions to the food service market.
By introducing PureFive® resin into coffee lids, Plastic Ingenuity is enabling food service brands to access recycled content solutions that meet demanding performance standards while supporting broader sustainability objectives. Coffee lids represent a high volume, everyday application, making them a critical opportunity to reduce reliance on virgin plastics and advance circular material use.
“Plastic Ingenuity has always focused on helping our customers navigate the evolving demands of sustainable packaging,” said Zach Muscato, Plastic Ingenuity’s Director of Sustainability and Innovation. “Integrating PureFive® resin into our coffee lid platform allows us to deliver a recycled solution that maintains the quality, consistency, and performance our customers expect. This is a meaningful step forward in supporting our partners’ sustainability goals without compromise.”
PureFive® resin is produced through PureCycle’s proprietary dissolution recycling process, which removes color, odor, additives and other plastics from post-consumer polypropylene to create a recycled material with properties comparable to virgin resin. PureFive®resin is GreenCircle® Certified for recycled content and suitable for food-contact with a No Objection Letter from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). This opens the door for recycled content in food-contact packaging applications where it has traditionally been challenging to use.
“Plastic Ingenuity is a strong example of how forward-thinking manufacturers are leading the transition to more sustainable packaging,” said Christian Bruey, PureCycle Director of Sustainability and External Affairs. “We are proud to support their efforts by providing a recycled polypropylene solution that helps meet both performance and sustainability requirements in demanding applications like coffee lids.”
The collaboration highlights a growing shift within the food service industry, where brands are seeking scalable, high-quality recycled material solutions in response to increasing consumer expectations and regulatory pressures. By combining Plastic Ingenuity’s thermoforming expertise with PureCycle’s dissolution recycling technology, the partnership demonstrates a practical pathway toward circularity in everyday packaging.
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