![]() ![]() And there are more and more food and beverage processing plants that have declared their definite intention to upsize the proportion of recyclates in their end-of-the-line packaging in future. So both the general public and politicians are demanding that this valuable resource, plastic, be utilised on a progressively more sustainable basis. ![]() ![]() In future, there will be an ever-increasing need for fully functional collection or take-back systems of this kind, because the number of PET bottles produced each year has increased by about two-thirds during the past 14 years – from around 300 billion in 2004 to roughly 500 billion in 2018. Here, only about 30 per cent of these containers are being returned to the cycle of re-usable materials, through private recycling bins for PET, aluminium and paper. And in actual fact, the answers to this question are not inconsequential: they differ depending on where you are located on our planet: a take-back system has meanwhile been established in many nations, but whereas in countries with a complete-coverage deposit system like Germany the recycling quota for PET is already running at over 90 per cent, the figure for the USA, for example, is significantly lower. Bottle empty – what now? Most consumers hardly ever think about what’s going to happen to their bottle after they have drunk all its contents. ![]()
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