Indorama Ventures, Nigerian Breweries and Genesis Energy have entered a strategic partnership to establish ‘one of Africa’s largest’ recycled PET (rPET) production facilities in Lagos, Nigeria, anticipated to produce up to 45,000 tonnes of food‑grade rPET resin annually.
Start-up for the facility is targeted for the first half of 2027, focused on converting post-consumer PET bottles into high-quality recycled material for packaging applications. The initiative aims to meet rising demand for recycled content, reduce plastic waste and create local value and jobs through improved collection systems.
Heineken operating company Nigerian Breweries is due to provide local market insight and engagement across Nigeria’s beverage ecosystem. The project is expected to support recycling capacity in Nigeria subject to regulatory approvals, technical validation and operational implementation.
The initiative aligns with Nigeria’s National Policy on Plastic Waste Management, introduced in 2020 to strengthen collection, recycling, and circular economy solutions, with the goal that all plastic packaging be recyclable, biodegradable, compostable, or reusable by 2030. The project is also expected to contribute to broader environmental and socio-economic objectives through increased PET collection, diverting plastic waste away from landfill, and sustained engagement with local communities to promote best practices in waste collection and recycling.
In related news, last year we spoke to Esson Akolo of Tomato Jos, an agricultural processing company working at the intersection of agriculture, logistics and packaging in Nigeria. Each year, a significant portion of Nigeria’s tomato harvest is lost before it ever reaches the consumer – the company seeks to tackle this through supporting smallholder farmers and refining supply chain processes through a combination of modern technology, improved transport packaging and education programmes.
Aiming to upscale reuse in the Global South, this month Smartfill and DY|DX announced they have open-sourced the core design and technical architecture of their dispensing systems for liquid FMCG products, initially developed in South Africa alongside Unilever and Bopinc. Designed as a replacement for single-use sachets, the dispensing system requires shopkeepers and consumers to refill bottles with FMCG products.
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