PETpla.net Insider 06 / 2013

MATERIAL / RECYCLING 22 PET planet insider Vol. 14 No. 06/13 www.petpla.net  PET resin for bottles produced and sold in 2011: 605,000t Recycling of PET bottles: Target of 3R for PET bottles  Collection rate target more than 75%  Promotion of mechanical BtoB instead of re-use  Bottle weight reduction target more than 10% Obligation of PET bottle manufac- turers and users  Plastic closures: must be made of PE or PP (aluminium not permit- ted).  Bottles: must be made of clear PET only (no colour). When using multilayer/ coating for barrier, evaluation of recy- cling performance must be made.  Labels: must easily be removable by hand Bale quality: Obliga- tion for consumers and municipalities in 2011 Collected bottles are com- pressed into bales. The very high percentage of high qual- ity clean post consumer PET in bales - suitable for high quality BtoB processing - reflect the self-regulated, self- imposed discipline of Japanese consumers and municipalities.  Rank A: 88% collected clean, suit- able to be processed for BtoB  Rank B: 10% collected, suitable to be processed into low spec. products  Rank C: not applicable to PET  Rank D: 2% collected and waste Collection status of PET bottles in 2010 and 2011  PET bottle sales in 2010 595,000t (see above)  Collection rate72% (target more than 75%, see above) = 430,000t  PET bottle sales in 2011 605,000t (see above)  Collection rate in 2011 79,6% (above target) = 480,000 tons  Comparison of collection rate with Europe (48% of sales) and USA (28% of sales). The above PET bottles are recy- cling designed PET bottles only: Bot- tles of soft drinks, liquor, soya sauce included in the above and designated for recycling; bottles for pharmaceu- ticals, cosmetics, detergents, edible oil, seasoning excluded in the above (not designated for recycling). Voluntary PET collection in Japan approx. 22% of total.  Municipality PET collection in Japan approx. 50% of total Reuse Collection and recycling channels In 2011 approx. 230,000t of post-consumer PET materials were collected and reused and repro- cessed in Japan, the biggest portion of recycled PET flakes was used for sheets (42,4%) and fibres (42%), but already approx. 11% for bottles. The remaining balance of total PET bottle collection is exported from Japan to China. PET bottle to bottle recycling processes - history  2004: Chemical bottle to bottle recycling was approved by the Food Safety Commission.  2006: Start of the 1 st Voluntary Action Plan for 3R Promotion  For safety reasons, chemical PET bottle recycling (PET Polymerisa- tion) was for many years the only recognised technology as far as BtoB was concerned. Materials recycling for BtoB was already state-of-the-art technology in Europe when Japan made its first hesitant move in the direction of the new, less expensive technol- ogy.  2011: The 2 nd Voluntary Action Plan for 3R promotion is started for Mechanical BtoB Recycling.  Guidelines for use of recycled PET in food packaging were laid down by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare – defining standards for source, testing, evaluation, safety and process quality control. Reduce At the same time – through their efforts aimed at achieving a plastics-free environment and returning PET for re-use within the processes – Japanese PET processors, bottlers and brand owners have reached agreement as follows on tar- gets for less PET per bottle for lighter bottles:  Average weight in 2004 100%  Average weight reduction, 2010 minus 3% ->97%  Average weight reduction, target 2015 minus 10% ->90% Outstanding examples of weight reduction achieved  Kirin Beverage “Pecology Bottle”: from 2l hot fill to 2l aseptic from 63g/b to 38g/b  Coca Cola (Japan) “Eco-ru-Bottle: Shiboru”: from 500ml aseptic to 520ml aseptic from 20.5g/b to 12g/b  Suntory (Pepsi) “Hybrid (multi- layer) Bottle”: from 500ml CSD to 500ml CSD from 31g/b to 24g/b