RE: [greenyes] European PET Recycling

["Eric Lombardi" <eric@no.address>]

So here's my question... "Why Not Here?"

There are so many progressive discard management techniques occurring
around the world... except in the USA.  The landfill and wasting rate is
on the rise here, when it is falling in the rest of the industrialized
world.

Who is going to blow the whistle on this?  I used to think it was the
job of the NRC ... but what do you all think ... is the NRC truly
representing recycling GROWTH in America?  Is it the organization that
you all (the GreenYes listservers) are members of that you expect to
provide national leadership?  Are we getting national leadership out of
them?

Eric Lombardi
Executive Director
Eco-Cycle, Inc


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Anderson [mailto:anderson@no.address] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:14 PM
To: GreenYes
Subject: [greenyes] European PET Recycling


June 1 2004
EUROPEAN PET RECYCLING TAKES OFF

Petcore has announced that more PET bottles were collected and recycled
in
Europe in 2003 than ever before.

612,000 tonnes of European PET bales were offered to the recycling
markets
in 2003, compared with 449,000 tonnes the previous year, representing a
growth rate of 36 per cent. Trends in market outlets remain unchanged,
with
bottle-to-bottle recycling increasing from 8.1 per cent in 2002, to 11.1
per
cent in 2003. Other RPET outlets include polyester fibre (70.4 per
cent),
polyester sheet (7.5 per cent) and strapping (7.6 per cent).

Exceptionally high growth rates were seen in Spain, Portugal, Hungary,
Slovakia, the Baltic states and in Ireland. A large increase was also
recorded in the UK, for the first time in many years. Germany and the UK
were the countries contributing most to the increase of bottle export to
China.

Export of RPET rose from 33,000 tonnes in 2002 to 136,000 tonnes last
year.

Petcore director general Frank Koelewijn said: "There is much growth
potential in the new member states, and it is very reassuring to see how
mature collection countries such as Austria, Belgium, France, Italy and
Switzerland, continue to collect more, year after year. The fundamentals
of
such growth are based on commitments of beverage brands, PET
stakeholders
and above all: committed citizens."





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