Buy it, drink it – and that’s it? No way! From a consumer’s view, the lifespan of a PET bottle may seem to be quite short. The bottles know it better. They are made of material which is highly suitable for recycling. This feature can be utilised again and again.

So it is all the more surprising that still billions of PET bottles per year are not recycled – thereby wasting a huge source of raw materials. But it’s worth for more than one reasons to get into the recycling business: No matter if you operate a filling line, supply packaging to beverage filling companies or produce other plastic products – a recycling system

• will make you independent of material procurement,
• save you a lot of costs and
• provide you with a solid argument of high publicity effect regarding sustainability and ecological efficiency.

But PET is only one of many plastic materials. Depending on their physical properties, plastic materials change their hardness, elasticity or temperature and heat resistance – and thereby its fields of application. Colourless PET, for instance, is mainly used for producing beverage bottles. The robust polyolefins (PO), however, are mainly used for the production of more stable containers, toys, pipes and household articles. Precisely because of their widespread use, it is essential that the end products are returned into the recycling cycle after use and that the plastic materials are reprocessed.