PET can be recycled an infinite number of times. Many PET products are made with 100% recycled content. This is due to PET’s unique characteristics that allow the rebuilding of its physical properties in a recycling process. Once PET from packaging is returned by consumers, it is sorted, cleaned, and shredded to produce flakes or pellets.
The flakes/pellets are melted and formed into new products. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), among other global food authorities, have deemed that the use of rPET flake/pellets in new food packaging products is safe.
PET can be recycled an infinite number of times. Many PET products are made with 100% recycled content. This is due to PET’s unique characteristics that allow the rebuilding of its physical properties in a recycling process. Once PET from packaging is returned by consumers, it is sorted, cleaned, and shredded to produce flakes or pellets.
The flakes/pellets are melted and formed into new products. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), among other global food authorities, have deemed that the use of rPET flake/pellets in new food packaging products is safe.
• Show a drop in CO2 equivalent emissions compared with virgin PET. Increasing the recycling rate of PET bottles to 60% would save approximately half of the emissions, equivalent to 445,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent every year.
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90%, this is 1.7kg CO2 equivalent per kg of PET. Increasing the recycling rate of PET bottles to 60% would save more than half of the emissions, approximately 500,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent every year.
• The higher the proportion of rPET, the better it is for the environment. Compared with PET Resin, manufacturing bottles from rPET requires only half of the energy, and results in a five-fold reduction in CO2 emissions.
• The EU aims to be climate neutral by 2050 and following the action plan of the EU Green deal, rPET will have a key role to achieve the targets set by the EU parliament which are 25% of recycled content for single used PET beverage bottles by 2025 and at least 30% recycle content for all single used plastic beverage bottles from 2030.
Hovewer, rPET is a little darker than virgin PET, and, due to its characteristics, it can be more difficult to process. It has absolutely no effect on taste and quality.
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