1Good coloration

bottlium® is 100% made from plastic bottles that have been provided by consumers as a clean resource after they have removed the caps and labels and rinsed the bottles out. This work by environmentally conscious consumers makes the bottles clear and clean and that in turn makes coloration much easier.

2 Chemical agent-free aqueous cleaning process

In ordinary recycling processes, cleansing agents that are known to be environmentally harmful are used to clean PET bottles. However, in the case of bottlium®, we process bottles using our proprietary technology that employs environmentally friendly ozone water to disinfect and sterilize the material, thereby achieving enhanced cleansing efficacy through the action of nano bubbles. The wastewater is reusable, which makes our washing process even more eco-friendly compared with the methods adopted by comparable PET pellet producers^*.*Surveyed recyclers handling 10,000+ tons of PET/year
(TOMRA Japan survey; as of April 2021)

3Efficient logistics to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

The PET bottles we collect are compressed to one-third their original size in our RVMs at retail outlets and then compressed even more and turned into bales at temporary storage facilities. By enabling each truck to carry more PET material, we have realized a more efficient logistics system with the smallest carbon footprint among PET recyclers in Japan^*.​​*Surveyed recyclers handling 10,000+ tons of PET/year
(TOMRA Japan survey; as of April 2021)

4Area/outlet traceability

Only by using bottlium®^*​ can you be sure of the point of collection—the specific area and store—of the PET bottles used to produce its PET pellets.

Many recycling facilities find it difficult to run production lines with a limited volume of material, forcing them to use mixed materials of different origins. We ensure solid traceability by producing PET pellets only from PET bottles that we ourselves have collected.​*Surveyed recyclers handling 10,000+ tons of PET/year
(TOMRA Japan survey; as of April 2021)

5GRS certified

The [Global Recycled Standard/GRS] verifies recycled content and tracks it from the source to the final product.

Products certified to the [Global Recycled Standard/GRS] contain independently verified recycled content and have met social, environmental, and chemical requirements at each stage of the supply chain, from the recycler to the finished product.