EU: Almost 59% PET bottles collected for recycling in 2015

With over 1.8 million tonnes of collected and recycled PET bottles, the 2015 European PET collection and recycling volumes have increased by 5% compared to 2014. This means that nearly 59% of all bottles placed in the European market have been collected for recycling in 2015, outlining an increase of 2% points compared to the 2014 collection rate.
These conclusions come from the annual PCI Wood Mackenzie report on post-consumer PET collection and recycling in Europe. As an outlook, the report concludes that the volume collected by 2020 will reach over 2 million metric tonnes, with an expected average collection rate of over 60% (Press Release Petcore Europe, 7 November 2016).
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