PETCO is the trading name of Kenya PET Recycling Company, a company incorporated in 2018 to represent the Kenyan PET plastic industry’s joint effort to self-regulate post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling.
PETCO’s unique model is built on the simple principle of an industry-driven and financed environmental solution for post-consumer PET plastic. The PET plastics industry acknowledges that the convenience and life-saving qualities of plastics aside, a solution for post-consumer plastic packaging is critical in order to minimize its impact on the environment.
To achieve this everyone involved, from the raw material producers, the converters, brand owners, retailers, consumers, and recyclers are playing their part in the solution, with PETCO fulfilling the PET industry’s role of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). It promotes the integration of environmental costs associated with PET products throughout their life cycles into the market costs of the products and shifts responsibility for the used container from the government to private industry. Read more
