DE: Deposits ensure success in PET bottle recycling in 2015

Bottle deposits have ensured consistently high recycling rates for PET bottles in Germany according to a 2015 study. PET bottles are recycled at a total of about 93.5%, while one-way deposit PET bottles have reached 97.9%.
The industry is also continuing on its aim of supplying more recycled PET into the materials cycle, with the average share of recycled PET in bottle production increasing compared to 2013 despite the adverse price development in recycled compared to virgin PET.
The beverage industry is chiefly responsible for recycling used PET bottles with 34% of the recycled material used in manufacturing new PET bottles (Press Release Forum PET, 6 December 2016).
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