European recycling

European post sorting PET collection reached 1.45 million tonnes in 2010 (48.3% of all PET bottles on the market), increasing by 6.5% over 2009. Nearly a quarter of the resulting RPET in Europe (250,000 tonnes) is used to produce new containers. These results were announced during a recent conference by the two European associations Petcore (PET Containers Recycling Europe) and EuPR (European Plastics Recyclers).