Nestle is investing £7 million to open Impact Recycling's new recycling plant, which will turn hard-to-recycle soft plastics into pellets to produce new soft plastics.

The plant, located in the United Kingdom, will use a process called a Baffled Oscillation Separation System (BOSS) to sort waste plastics by rotating them in water, where different densities will cause different materials to sink or float, simplifying the separation of soft plastics. These plastics will then be converted into pellets and used to produce soft plastics in areas such as construction and agriculture, with expected products including delivery bags and garbage bags.

The plant is expected to have a capacity of 25,000 tonnes, which is more than the total amount of soft plastic packaging Nestle puts on the market in the UK and Ireland. Supermarkets will set up collection points to collect Nestle cereal bags, KitKat wrappers, Purina pet food bags, Rowntree confectionery sharing bags and other flexible packaging for recycling.