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New Recycling Coalition to Improve Recovery of Plastic Packaging and Enhance the Circularity of PET Packaging

June 9, 2022

Via: Waste360

The Recycling Partnership is pleased to announce the launch of its PET Recycling Coalition, an initiative informed by industry knowledge and expertise to improve PET (plastic #1) circularity. Its work will focus on addressing four key opportunities to increase recycling of this valuable material:

  • Increasing the capture of PET bottles
  • Broadening the acceptance of PET trays, cups, and clamshells in community recycling collection programs
  • Unlocking new supplies of recycled PET (rPET) for packaging manufacturers
  • Strengthening recycling systems for pigmented and opaque PET

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