COBA Impact Manufacturing is the first company in Ethiopia to launch a full-scale hot wash recycling plant for PET bottles and HDPE. The plant began producing PET flakes in April 2014 using state-of-the-art machinery imported from Italy. With a recycling capacity of 800 kg per hour, COBA Impact stands out as the only recycling company in Ethiopia that has made a significant investment in a water treatment system. This system complies with European norms, ensuring that the discharged wastewater meets the most stringent international standards.

The recycling process to achieve a high quality reusable PET flake involves the following stages:

• Bottle collection
• Bottle sorting by color and bottle type
• Delabling
• Wet crushing
• Hot Wash
• Drying
• ZigZag separation
• Optical sorting
• Packing
  
  

This is a pioneering project for the company where its objective is to introduce the importance to recycle plastics for environmental conservation and introduce the numerous advantages renewable energy offers to communities.

A lot of effort has been done in introducing a plastic bottles collection system in Ethiopia, where today we can proudly say that over 50,000 tons of post consume plastic bottles have been collected in Ethiopia by Coba Impact.