PET bottle recycling
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PET bottle recycling
PET (Polyethylenterephthalate) bottles can be recycled to reuse the material out of which they are made and to reduce the amount of waste going intolandfills. PET is semiporous and absorbs molecules of the food or beverage contained, and the residue is difficult to remove. Using PET bottle flakes to successfully produce higher value products needs improved flake production methods, suitable quality control tools, suitable conversion processes and the right processing equipment. Unlike virgin material, the processing of bottle flakes to the different intermediates and final products needs specific attention, depending on the process or final products that are selected.
PET recycling processes
| Company | Process | Contact | Input | Output (with approval) | Capacity (t/a) | Floor Space (m²) | Approvals | Fresh water consumption per tonne output (m³/t) | kWh consumption per tonne output (kWh/t) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starlinger & Co. Ges.m.b.H., Austria | Bottle-to-Granulate | Elfriede Hell (recycling.he@starlinger.com) | Engineering of washing lines and / or a turn-key project with components and technologies available in the market | Yes (decontaminated for food-contact, IV increased, AA < 1ppm, lowest VOC level) | 6,000 - 26,000 | Depending on design | USA/FDA (C-H), Austria, Germany/BfR, Ilsi, France/AFFSSA, Finland, Australia, Canada, Egypt, Japan, Switzerland, Latin American Countries; follows EFSA requiremens; brand owners | Depending on design | Depending on design |
| Amut S.p.A., Italy | Bottle-to-Granulate | Piergianni Milani p.milani@amut.it | Yes | 3,000 - 45,000 | Depending on size and stream quality | Depending on stream quality | 300 - 600 | ||
| Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H., Austria | Bottle-to-Granulate | Christoph Wöss ch.woess@erema.at | Yes, in cooperation with long-time partners | ||||||
| Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH, Germany | Bottle-to-Granulate | Engineering of washing lines with long term partners | Yes | up to 17.000 | FDA, ESFA (pending), INTI, brand owners (conf.) | Depending on bottle contamination | Depending on input material | ||
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PET recycling figures
PET Associations
Amercia North:
Napcor The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) is the trade association for the PET plastic packaging industry. The association's purposes are to promote the introduction and use of PET packaging; to facilitates its recycling; and to communicate the attributes of the PET container as an environmentally sustainable package.
PETRA
PETRA is the industry association for North America's producers of PET.
Europe:
PETcore Petcore Europe is a non-profit European trade association based in Brussels. The focus of the association lies on ensuring the sustainable growth of post-consumer PET collection and recycling and that PET is positioned as a sustainable packaging material.
EPBP The European PET Bottle Platform is a voluntary industry initiative that provides PET bottle design guidelines for recycling, evaluates PET bottle packaging solutions and technologies and facilitates understanding of the effects of new PET bottle innovations on recycling processes.
Asia
The Council for PET Bottle Recycling, Japan
www.petbottle-rec.gr.jp/english/
Korea Packaging Recycling Cooperative (KPRC)
