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Always “for the best” with a vertically integrated business model

Established in 2021 as the fifth company in Bakioğlu Holding Packaging Group's vertically integrated business model, Bakcycle Recycling fulfills a crucial need in sustainability and circular economy goals by recycling plastic packaging waste back into granules. Among Bakcycle's founding objectives are to highlight the role that plastic packaging plays in preventing all kinds of waste in a sustainable world, to show that used plastic packaging is part of an environmentalist approach that will reduce carbon emissions by recycling used plastic packaging many times over, and to pioneer an approach where waste can be reused as an economic value rather than garbage.

Performing mechanical recycling in the initial phase, Bakcycle Recycling incorporates the most advanced technologies in the industry, such as optical separation, hot washing, laser filtration and odor reduction. Being the first and only recycling facility in Türkiye boasting such equipment, Bakcycle AŞ has very few counterparts in Europe and the USA.

Bakcycle Recycling conducts its operations on a 20,000 m² plot within the Aliağa Chemical Specialization and Mixed Organized Industrial Zone, utilizing 13,500 m² of indoor facility space. With an annual capacity to sort 30,000 tons of plastic and produce 18,000 tons of R-PE (recycled polyethylene), Bakcycle Recycling aims to increase facility capacity through second-phase investments in the short term. In the long term, the company targets expertise in recycling methods beyond mechanical recycling, in line with technological developments and evolving needs in the recycling sector.

Embracing important objectives towards preventing environmental pollution caused by the mismanagement of plastic packaging consumption in our daily lives, Bakcycle Recycling emerged as a result of Bakioğlu Group's commitment to human values, environmental stewardship, and vertically integrated business model in the flexible packaging industry. Bakcycle Recycling not only gives value to waste, but also enables recycling of waste that is very difficult to recycle back into the industry as raw material. This not only avoids the waste of natural resources for the production of plastic raw materials derived from fossil fuels, but also reduces greenhouse gas emissions generated during such production processes.