PET collection reached 1.59 Million tonnes in 2011

Petcore and EuPR announced that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.59 Million tonnes in 2011, an increase of 140 Ktes (9.4%) on 2010. For the EU 27 countries growth in collection is stable at 2%.

More than 50% of the resulting rPET was used to produce containers or sheets for new packaging applications in 2011. The 2011 share of fibres as an end use for recycled PET flake remained at 39%. The strapping market for rPET increased slightly to just over 100 Ktes (Press release European PET Collection report 2011)