A waste management company is locating the facility in Portlaoise.
100 jobs are being created at a new recycling centre in the midlands.
Waste management company Panda is investing 20 million euro in the Laois faciilty.
The plant in Portlaoise which its hoped will be operational by the end of next year, will bring an end to the need for Ireland to export plastic bottles for recycling.
Currently we export 20,000 tonnes of plasic containers to the UK and throughout Europe.
It'll be Ireland's first dedicated bottle to bottle recycling facility and will process around 1 billion water and soft drinks bottles each year.
Panda is in advanced negotiations with a number of major soft drinks manufacturers to collect, sort and process the material at the Laois site.
The project is being developed in partnership between the waste management company and Trinity College Dublin.
Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport, Eamon Ryan described it as a win for the region, and an example of how the green economy can be a source of employment.
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