A PET bottle’s life
Why should we use PET? Simple. It meets all the criteria of a high-performance package:
- It protects: it preserves, secures and guarantees product hygiene and consumer health.
- It stands out: flexible and clear, it can be shaped into any form while highlighting the product inside.
- It’s better: lightweight, shatterproof, and recloseable, it makes beverages easier to carry, ship and store.
- It’s recyclable: PET is 100% recyclable, and there are well-developed applications for the recycled resin!
Today, plastic packaging is a part of our daily lives...and sorting our waste begins to become a reflex
Different countries have instituted a variety of incentive programs to encourage collection and reprocessing of plastic packages. Manufacturers have responded with various initiatives and commitments. In Europe, for example, the EcoEmballage logo on packages signifies that the manufacturer financially supports energy recovery and recycling of household waste. In other countries, the government provides financial support.
As consumers, we all have a role to play by sorting our waste. This is a key step in the process because sorting facilitates recycling. The PET bottles collection rates are 38.6% in Europe (Petcore statistics) and 23.5% in the United States (Napcor statistics) in 2006.
