Recycled Products - Gravita Plastic

Recycled Products

A successful recycling programme does not only depend on post-consumer waste collection. It is also depends on whether the products made out of collected, reclaimed and recycled material respond to consumers’ needs, in other words if recycled products are actually bought. There are the following end user markets for recycled PET (rPET):

Fibers

Polyester fibers are currently being engineered to provide qualities that are similar to upholstery foams. These advanced hollow “conjugated” polyester fibers can contain up to 35% recycled material.

Packaging

Egg containers and other preformed plastic boxes (such as fruit boxes) account for about 25% of total recycled PET usage.

Recycled Products

A successful recycling programme does not only depend on post-consumer waste collection. It is also depends on whether the products made out of collected, reclaimed and recycled material respond to consumers’ needs, in other words if recycled products are actually bought. There are the following end user markets for recycled PET (rPET):

Fibers

Polyester fibers are currently being engineered to provide qualities that are similar to upholstery foams. These advanced hollow “conjugated” polyester fibers can contain up to 35% recycled material.

Packaging

Egg containers and other preformed plastic boxes (such as fruit boxes) account for about 25% of total recycled PET usage.

New Applications

The PET industry is in constant search for new applications for reclaimed material. There are many developing markets for recovered PET:

– Polyurethane foams can be made thanks to polyester polyols developed from PET flakes.

– Engineered resins made from recovered PET can be injection moulded to manufacture computer and automotive parts.

– Other alternative production processes use “spunbonded” PET in the manufacture of shoe liners, webbing and geotextiles (e.g. shoes and backpacks).