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# reCUP™ Set to be Collected by Panda Recycling
- URL: https://packaging-europe.ghost.io/recup-set-to-be-collected-by-panda-recycling/
- Published: 2018-03-06T08:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-22T21:10:43.000Z
- Author: Packaging Europe staff writers
- Tags: Sustainability, #layout-s, #type-article, #packaging-europe, #Import 2026-09-08 15:35

**Panda Recycling has announced plans to include paper products coated with Smart Planet Technologies’ EarthCoating®, available in the UK on the reCUP™ recyclable cup range, into its existing UK and Ireland recycling operations.** 

Once collections begin, 100% of the recovered cup stock will be diverted from landfill and delivered to paper mills to be reprocessed into new paper items. 

Will Lorenzi, President of Smart Planet Technologies Inc. explains: “EarthCoating® is a technology that makes paper cup recycling possible in the regular card and paper recycling stream. Today, 100% plastic coatings are used on the inside of paper cups but when recovered the plastic contaminates the pulping process, making the cups very difficult to recycle.

EarthCoating® is a universal paper board recycling solution that does not require new capital investment or modification of existing recycling equipment. EarthCoating® technology can be easily applied to all coated paper board applications including sandwich wedges, ice-cream and noodle pots and any other food contact applications. 

Paper cups made with EarthCoating® are available under the reCUP™ and Vericup™ brands for order throughout the UK. 

More info: 

[www.panda.ie](http://www.panda.ie/?ref=packaging-europe.ghost.io)