EDITOUR PETplanet Insider Vol. 23 No. 10/22 www.petpla.net 27 69% bottle-to-bottle recycling The Swiss Association PRS (PET Recycling Switzerland) was established in 1990 and offers industryrelated solutions on a voluntary basis. While beverage producers and importers pay a charge for each bottle, the bottle itself is deposit-free. Consumers return their bottles to a collection point which is separate from other household waste. Thus, of the 42,880 t of bottles that are in circulation, 45,893 t are put back into the cycle annually, i.e. more tonnes than from officially sold PET bottles. This is the equivalent of a collection rate of 107%. 33,414 t of rPET are produced for bottle-to-bottle recycling once all foreign matter and non-recyclable PET residues have been removed. In Switzerland, coloured PET bottles are also being reprocessed, generating 16,190 t of white rPET, 7,578 t of blue, 7,577 t of green, 1,722 t of brown and 348 t coloured rPET. This means that 69% of new material can be saved in Switzerland (source of all figures: PRS / 2021). www.resilux.com www.polyrecycling.ch K 2022 Düsseldorf, 19-26 October Hall 09/Stand 9C29 F.l.t.r.: Roland Rinderer COO, Manuel Peter CTO and Daniel Sommer CSO
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