Carbios and German waste management service provider Landbell Group have signed a feedstock agreement for the French biochemistry company’s PET depolymerisation plant in Longlaville, France.
The non-binding memorandum of understanding agreement will see Landbell supplying Carbios with 15,000 tonnes a year of PET flakes from 2026. The deal comes weeks after Carbios announced it is moving forward with construction of the facility, which is touted as the world’s first PET biorecycling plant.
The feedstock will come primarily from ‘problematic’ PET fractions such as multi-layered, coloured, and opaque trays from packaging waste and polyester textile waste. Through this new partnership, the supply of multilayer trays through the Citeo tender in France, and the memorandum of understanding with Indorama Ventures, Carbios has sourced over 70% of the feedstock required for when Longlaville starts operating at full capacity at 50,000 tonnes/year.