Last week we started talking about a Resource Recycling newsletter article concerning a report. The report was by the nation’s largest waste and recycling hauler, the Houston-based Waste Management (WM) company. Today we will continue with it. We’ll start with the recycling of PET plastic bottles (Number 1 on the recycling symbol of chasing arrows; think soft drink bottles).
Concerning the PET bottles, of the three main different resins, an analysis found the PET reclamation sector to be the most consistent. The report stated these PET reclaimers appeared ‘to be well established in the marketplace. (Reclaimer: To retrieve or recover, i.e. using recycled material.)
However, the report showed important regions still lack PET adequate processing. Those areas where the PET generation is the highest is not always where there is enough PET processing.
