FR: Opaque PET bottles may need to be banned

Segolene Royal, the French Minister of Environment, Energy and the Sea, said opaque PET bottles can contaminate HDPE recyclate and asked packaging compliance organizations to place a financial penalty on opaque PET. The penalty would make HDPE more price competitive with less expensive opaque PET for container production.
The increasing use of opaque PET bottles endangers the recycling chain of milk bottles, by disrupting HDPE sorting. The Ministry also said opaque PET can be difficult to recycle. The minister will study the possibility of a French ban on opaque PET bottles if recycling issues are not effectively addressed (Recycling Laws International, 6 February 2017).
Click here for the announcement by the French minister (in French).
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