The report cites a 2013 United states trying to recycle rate of 31.2Percent for PET plastic containers, up slightly from 2012’s 30.8%. Communities in the U.S. collected more PET bottles than ever before in 2013-a total of 1,798 million pounds. Total Family pet used in the production of United states bottles in 2013 was greater at 5,764 thousand lbs, despite sales declines in certain drink marketplace sectors. These containers included an archive 475 million lbs of reused PET content material.
“Demand for recycled PET continues to grow, with domestic use in bottles, polyester fiber, and other applications increasing year-over-year,” says Tom Busard, NAPCOR Chairman, Chief Procurement Officer for Plastipak coil packing line packaging, Inc., and President of Clean Tech, Plastipak’s recycling affiliate.“Limited recycled PET supply is still a barrier to growth, but PET reclaimers really boosted their operations in 2013, easily absorbing the increase in bottles collected, and pulling back material that had been exported in previous years.”
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Clean PET flake produced by domestic PET reclaimers from U.S. containers totaled 974 million lbs, an increase of 24% over 2012. The amount of reused PET utilized throughout domestic end-use marketplace segments also increased, from 1,312 thousand lbs in 2012 to 1,513 million pounds in 2013, with significant benefits in PET fiber and bottle end uses. Other trends of note include a continued reduction in export volumes, which represented only 26% of complete selection volumes in 2013, the lowest quantity since 2004 as well as the lowest by percentage of complete selection because 2000.
“Despite very real challenges for Family pet recyclers due to limited provide and decreasing bale yields, this document demonstrates a maturing, entrepreneurial business that will continue to find and innovate new materials sources and process efficiencies,” says Scott Saunders, APR Chairman and General Manager, KW Plastics Trying to recycle Department. “Notably, household recyclers are adding more than 790 million pounds of materials back to United states creation of new Family pet coil packing line packaging; this can be a substantial demonstration of domestic shut-loop production.”
While the document holds a lot of great news, APR and NAPCOR say they recognize the industry’s ongoing challenges. Variety of Family pet containers for trying to recycle will continue to delay far right behind demand, underutilizing a robust household PET trying to recycle facilities with more than 2 billion pounds of capability. Reduced PET bale yields-a way of measuring usable PET derived from the recycling procedure-add significant price to reclaimer operations and stress the facilities. These reduced produces are due to the growing existence of low-Family pet materials in Family pet bales, and the development of low-recyclable package improvements. The companies are working to improve both quality and the quantity of the availability of PET containers by motivating improved bale quality, promoting recycling-friendly package design, and cultivating greater selection.
