Ensuring the plastics cycle is economically sound, environmentally justified, and socially accepted.

What is PET?

What is PET?PolyEthylene Terephthalate or PET is a strong, but lightweight form of clear polyester, often used to make containers.
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Who Are Petcore?

Who are Petcore?PET containers recycling Europe, is a non-profit European association fostering the use and recycling of PET containers. Learn More.

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http://www.buhlergroup.com/global/en/industry-solutions/advanced-materials.htm Bühler's business unit "Thermal Processes" supplies customer-orientated continuous operation systems for...
www.colormatrix.com ColorMatrix Group Inc are global innovators in liquid colorant, additive and dosing technologies for the plastics industry. The company takes a holistic, total package approach to...
www.corepla.it The National Consortium for Collection, Recovery and Recycling of Plastics Packaging Waste, COREPLA is responsible for the management and financing of collection, sorting, energy...
 The Committee of PET Manufacturers in Europe (CPME) is the primary source of accurate and reliable information on all market, technical, health, safety, regulatory and environmental aspects of...
www.equipolymers.com Equipolymers, a JV between The Dow Chemical Company (USA)  and Petrochemical Industry Company (Kuwait), manufactures and markets polyethylene terephthalate resins under the...
http://www.erema.com/en/1/ Erema is exclusively specialised in the development, design and manufacturing of recycling plants for the plastics processing industry.
EuPC is the EU-level Trade Association, based in Brussels, representing European Plastics Converters. Its powerful European Plastics Network exists to support the beneficial use of plastics...
EuPET is the European association for unoriented PET films. These films are also called APET films.   Our PET films are predominantly used for packaging. The best known forms of PET packaging...
With more than 25 years of experience and over 50 international patents, the family-owned and operated company Gneuss has made a name for itself as a supplier of innovative solutions for the plastics...
  www.invista.com   With 45 years of manufacturing experience across the polyester chain, the INVISTA Polymer and Resins business has a commitment to being the world's most reliable,...
http://www.laseda.es/index_en.php LSB is an industrial group that operates and does business globally through its 16 plants in different European countries, with capacity to supply from Glycol and...
Logoplaste is an industrial group, manufacturing rigid plastic packaging for some of the most reputable companies in the world, in the food and beverage, personal care, household care and oil and...
http://www.mgc.co.jp/eng/index.html
http://joomla.montello-spa.it/en/ Montello S.p.A operates in the environmental services field.  One of the major plastics reclaimers in Italy, it recovers post-consumer PET packaging into PET...
Plastics Recyclers Europe is the professional representative body of plastics recyclers in Europe. It promotes plastics mechanical recycling and conditions that enable profitable and sustainable...
www.plastipak.com Providing Packaging Solutions Through Engaged Hearts and Minds
www.rpc-group.com   RPC Group is Europe's leading manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging and supplies products made by all three conversion processes, blow moulding, injection moulding and...
www.pet-recycling.com S+S is one of the world's leading manufacturers and developers of separation and sorting systems for PET recycling, exploiting the latest technologies for colour, material type...
www.sorema.it Sorema, with 30 years' experience is a Leader in design, manufacturing and installation of recycling plants for plastic materials: pre-washing, wet grinding and washing technologies.
www.sorepla.com Sorepla reclaims domestic plastic packaging waste (PET and HDPE bottles) from separate collection schemes. Sorepla is the leader in France in PET and HDPE recycling.  These two...
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Today plastic packaging design threatens new EU recycling targets

  Recylass™ is coming!
• More plastic recycling is needed.
• Additional effort by designers is needed.
• Recylass™ is coming.
 
Today plastic packaging design threatens new EU recycling targets. Plastic packaging recycling does not begin with collection but design. Packaging design today is focused mainly on maximizing performance. Careless design often leads to incomplete emptying of a package and what about different combinations of polymers/materials which are incompatible for an efficient recycling process?
The new challenge should be that recyclability becomes a requirement fully equal to the other performance criteria. This will help to divert substantial quantities of plastics away from landfill and incineration into recycling hence moving them to a higher category according to the EU waste hierarchy.

Mixed plastics waste creates mixed challenge

 By Nnamdi Anyadike
Posted 16 April 2013
Europe is being swamped by a tide of low value plastic waste, much of which is currently going to landfill – a situation that is of growing concern to the EU. Now, a European Commission Green Paper on plastic waste has been given a cautious welcome by the European plastics industry bodies Plastics Recyclers Europe, European Plastic Converters (EuPC) and PlasticsEurope, which would like to eliminate all plastic waste going to landfill.

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