The National Association for PET Container Resources, the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers, and the PET Resin Association have released the “2008 Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity. The groups also noted that the PET recycling rate last year was 27 percent.
This is the highest recycling rate in over ten years and represents an increase of 9.8 percent over the 2007 rate of 24.6 percent. Over 1.45 billion pounds of PET bottles were collected in the United States in 2008, the highest PET container collection volume recorded to date.
The report details the end-uses for a record 915 million pounds of recycled PET used in domestic manufacturing applications.
“It is very satisfying to see this significant jump in the PET recycling rate,” said Tom Busard, NAPCOR chairman and VP, Global Procurement and Material Systems, Plastipak Packaging.
“Using recycled PET in the manufacture of goods and packaging is energy and resource-efficient and a good example of sustainable practice. We are committed to working with our industry partners to meet the increased demand from the manufacturing applications that use – or would like to use – recycled PET.”This is the fourth year that NAPCOR, the APR, and PETRA have partnered to produce this Report and the fourteenth year that NAPCOR has issued the Report in its current format.
The full report can be“2008 Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity” can be obtained by going to either www.napcor.com or www.plasticsrecycling.org.
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