...PET beverage bottles in particular has become a model in recent years. The success of PET recycling in Germany is demonstrated by the study “Aufkommen und Verwertung von PET-Getränkeflaschen in...
PET beverage bottles already meet the key requirements in the current debate on plastic recycling. Germany’s firmly established recycling system from manufacturing to recycling PET bottles has played a decisive...
...by using recycled PET material in the production of new PET beverage packaging and by striving to steadily increase this share. Identification of the recycled content in PET beverage bottles...
...companies that use more recyclates than required by law. Authorisations for mechanically manufactured recyclates in contact with foodstuffs have so far only been granted for PET. Authorisations for other plastics...
...due to plastic. If you look at the alternatives, they increase waste, harm and litter. And that’s the thing that people never ask. A study compared PET bottles, for example,...
...applications and digital trade. The resulting standard, DIN SPEC 91446, was launched in November last year as the world’s first standard for high-quality plastics recycling beyond PET. Will the market...
...and PTFE. Petrochemical feedstocks The petrochemical feedstocks for plastics production have also become more expensive, although to a lesser extent than the polymers made from them. The cost of ethylene,...
...while some packaging, such as PET beverage bottles, can already be made entirely from recyclates today, there are high legal and technical barriers for other types of packaging. The use...
...approx. 6 million tonnes of post-consumer recyclates (PCR). Currently, about 1.6 million tonnes of PCR are used in packaging, mainly PET. To achieve the 2030 quotas proposed by the Commission,...
...tonnes of new product made from petroleum. Processors will need reliable volumes of recycling material of an adequate quality in order to be able to meet this target. In addition...
