Closing India’s plastic loop, at industrial scale.
Greenwave Circularity is building a food-grade plastic recycling facility in Odisha and returning post-consumer waste to the products it came from.
Indicative design render
The context
India consumes plastic faster than it can recover it.
India’s growing use of plastic is increasing the need for reliable collection, sorting and high-quality recycling infrastructure. Greenwave is focused on returning post-consumer plastic to productive use through traceable, industrial-scale systems.
Data pending
India plastic-waste generation figure to be supplied by Greenwave
Data pending
Plastic-waste collection and recovery figure to be supplied by Greenwave
The facility
A fully integrated recycling facility in Odisha.
Food-grade rPET
Post-consumer bottles converted to flakes, resin and preforms for food and beverage packaging.
Recycled polyolefins
rPP and rHDPE granules extending circular supply into packaging, automotive and construction.
Built for the lowest footprint in its class
Zero liquid discharge with over 90% of water reprocessed at full operational capacity across three development phases, minimal chemical use, rooftop solar and heat recovery.
Applications
Recycled materials for demanding applications.
Greenwave is developing recycled materials for use across packaging and other industrial applications. Detailed application information will be added after technical review.
The loop
From bottle to bottle, designed to begin again.
- 01
Collection
Bottles recovered through India's waste collection network
- 02
Sorting
Aggregation and grading at material recovery facilities
- 03
Recycling
Washing, flaking and polymerisation into food-grade resin
- 04
Preform
Resin converted into preforms for bottling
- 05
Return to use
Filled, sold, and recovered again
The same material, returned to the same use, again and again.
Impact
Measured in material, carbon and livelihoods.
Figures represent full operational capacity across three development phases.
- 10 billion
- post-consumer bottles recovered annually at full scale
- ~75%
- lower carbon footprint than virgin PET
- 1,000
- direct and indirect formal jobs across operations, maintenance, logistics and downstream value chains
- 140,000+
- informal waste workers whose income streams are formalised
Institutional backing
Financing and institutional partners.
OeEB
European Union
Transforming Global Value Chains
Global Gateway
EDFI
Partnership & people
Building a traceable and inclusive value chain.
Greenwave’s supply chain is designed to bring collection, sorting and aggregation into a documented and audited system with traceable material, formal income and recognised employment. Our social impact programme is implemented with Ecoloom Greentech.
Standards
Target certifications and compliance frameworks.
Greenwave intends to build and operate against internationally recognised environmental, safety, quality and food-contact frameworks.
Construction and management
LEED Silver/Gold
IFC Performance Standards
ISO 9001
ISO 14001
ISO 45001
ISO 22000
Operations and product
FSSAI
Global Recycled Standard
US FDA food-contact
EFSA
EN 15343
RecyClass
REACH
SMETA 4-Pillar
Sustainable Development Goals
Aligned to thirteen Sustainable Development Goals.
The facility connects circular production and resource efficiency with formal livelihoods, safer work and international partnership, linking industrial infrastructure to wider social and environmental outcomes.
