Recycling Pet Plastic Bottles
Let s briefly explore the history of beverage bottles to gain insights into plastic bottle recycling.
Recycling pet plastic bottles. Pet polyethylene terephthalate is represented with the no 1 logo. An interdisciplinary collaboration between students from zurich universities and ghanaian pet recycling startup repatrn has designed a concept for compressing bottles that will allow recycling pet bottles to be economically viable in ghana. Recycling rate had fallen below 29. Pet recycling avoids used drinks bottles from being landfilled.
Recycling rate is about 31 in 2012 while it is 52 in the european union in 2016 the u s. Previously people used refillable glass bottles putting the burden on businesses to transport. Recycling plastic always reduces waste. However if we look at plastic bottles for instance humans buy a million plastic bottles per minute and 91 of all plastic is not recycled this article is going to cover what makes plastic recycling so important how to recycle pet and the future of.
Plastic bottles made from pet are widely used for soft drinks see carbonation for certain specialty bottles such as those designated for beer containment pet sandwiches an additional polyvinyl alcohol pvoh layer to further reduce its oxygen permeability. Recycled polyethylene terephthalate is known as rpet and it is the most widely recycled plastic in the world. We buy scrap pet plastic. Bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate pet sometimes pete can be recycled and used to manufacture new bottles and containers thermoform packaging strapping and are also used in fiber applications such as carpet and apparel.
In ghana recyclable materials are collected by so called pickers and sold to nearby middlemen who organise and pay for the materials to. Biaxially oriented pet film often known by one of its trade names mylar can be aluminized by evaporating a thin film of metal. According to petra the pet resin association the u s.