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	Recycling of PET Bottles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Recycling of PET Bottles is the activity whereby bottles made out of PET are collected, sorted and processed in order to reuse the material out of which they are made.
		In many countries, PET plastics are coded with the number 1 which is found inside the universal recycling symbol, usually located on the bottom of the container.
		PET is used as a raw material for making packaging materials such as bottles and containers for packaging a wide range of food products and other consumer goods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Recycling_of_PET_Bottles (413 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Recycling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Motivations for recycling include environmental concerns, as recycling reduces the use of energy and raw materials and the need to dispose of waste, and for cost reasons, in situations where production from recycled material is less expensive than from new material.
		As a result, state support for recycling may be more expensive than alternatives such as landfill; recycling efforts in New York City cost $57 million per year.
		Refillable bottles are used extensively in many European countries; for example in Denmark, 98% of bottles are refillable, and 98% of those are returned by consumers.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Recycling (1082 words)

	Plastic Recycling
		Plastic recycling is the process of taking scrap or waste plastics and recovering the material for use in manufacturing.
		Before recycling, plastics are sorted according to their resin identification code.
		Du Pont opened a pilot plant of this type in Cape Fear to recycle PET by a process of methanolysis, but closed the plant due to economic pressures.
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/environment/plasticrecycling.html (851 words)

	Soda Bottle - Background, Raw Materials, The Manufacturing, Quality Control
		PET was developed in 1941, but it wasn't until the early 1970s that the plastic soda bottle became a reality.
		PET is a polymer, a substance consisting of a chain of repeating organic molecules with great molecular weight.
		Current goals of state and federal governments are that 25 to 50 percent of PET be recycled, that recycling of PET be made available to one-half of the United States population, and that 4000 curbside recycling programs be implemented in the near future.
	www.madehow.com /Volume-1/Soda-Bottle.html (1794 words)

	Recycle\|History of recycle\|Paper recycling\|Plastic recycling\|Recycling of PET Bottles\|Waste management!
		Recycling is the collection of used materials that would otherwise be waste to be broken down and remade into new products.
		Motivations for recycling include environmental sustainability and business economics: sustainability because the reused material both prevents waste and reduces the consumption of new raw materials, and economics because it can be cheaper to produce new products from reused or recycled materials.
		State support for recycling may be more expensive than alternatives such as landfill; recycling efforts in New York City in the USA cost $57 million per year.
	www.recycle.ro (718 words)

	PET bottles recycling, washing and separation
		If you’re thinking about a recycling system to go from kerbside PET bottles collection all the way to pellets for food application, here some explanation to make you better understand what it is all about.
		Bottles are therefore collected by a conveyor belt equipped with a permanent magnet mounted on a perpendicular small conveyor belt, to automatically extract steel and/or a metal detector to stop this conveyor in case some other (non ferrous) metals are present.
		To increase the rinsing effect, PET flakes are extracted from the bottom of the tank by means of an high speed pump, to “brush” the surface of flakes.
	www.ledarecycling.it /menu/pet_bottles_recycling.htm (4425 words)

	CBWA: Recycling
		In Canada, PET bottles have been recycled for over 20 years and are one of the most valuable materials in the recycling system.
		The Canadian Bottled Water Association encourages all consumers to use their local community recycling system to ensure PET bottles are recovered and recycled.
		Polycarbonate bottles are designed for multiple (repeated) use, and require proper sanitation, as is done in the bottling plant before being refilled and immediately sealed for consumer use.
	www.cbwa-bottledwater.org /en/recycling.htm (232 words)

	CBOT sampling protocols
		PET bottles and containers can be identified by looking for the "#1, PET or PETE," resin identification code found on the bottom of PET bottles and containers.
		All PET bottles and containers that are set out for recycling should be completely free of contents and rinsed clean.
		Recycling consumer education programs should emphasize to residents that participate in hypodermic needle collection programs that they should never include containers with needles with recyclable materials set out for curbside collection or delivered to a collection center.
	www.cwc.org /pet_bp/pbp1-0102.htm (637 words)

	PET bottles washing line
		You get bottles in bales and, according to production rate, and the country you are in, you may want to use a bales breaker to open them up and have all bottles single.
		Bottles will go on a conveyor belt, always sized according to the number of bottles that will go on it, and further step, pretty important, is to “stabilize” the flow of bottles going to sorting.
		PET is a very abrasive material and dirt and paper don’t make things better so you should expect the blades to wear out in very little time.
	www.ledarecycling.it /docs/PET_bottles_recycling_system.html (3258 words)

	Recycling at ASU
		In the recycling process, PET bottles may be color sorted and then ground up into small flakes and washed.
		PET sinks in the wash water while the plastic caps and labels are floated off.
		Recycled PET has many uses and there are well established market for this useful resin.
	property.asu.edu /recycle/how.html (1389 words)

	Equipment for recycling PET bollles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was found that a professional PET bottle recycling plant is very attractive for the small and medium companies which like to develop their business from scratch but are not prepared to invest high amounts at start up.
		PET flakes obtained in this mini-plant are clean enough to be recycled into pellets for further processing by extrusion, injection molding or fiber manufacturing into a wide range of final products.
		Sometimes bottles are made from PVC (mainly for vegetable oil), sometimes used inside caps for sealing to the bottle thread etc. It looks quite similar to PET but this material is extremely harmful for further processing since PVC acts destructive in thermal processes of PET recycling.
	www.recycler.ru /en/pet/PET-mobile.shtml (1159 words)

	water PET bottle reuse : recycling plastic bottles
		PET can be recycled into fibres that are used for polyester fabrics.
		PET is also spun like cotton candy to makr fiber filling for pillows and quilts.
		PET can also be rolled ito clear sheets or ribbon for VCR and audio cassettes.
	www.designboom.com /eng/education/pet/recycling.html (869 words)

	PET soft drink bottles dragging down overall recycling rates
		While recycling rates for other plastic containers rose slightly in 2000, the continuing downward slide in PET (#1 on the Resin Identification Code) bottle recycling is dragging down the overall plastic container recycling rate, according to a report in the January 2004 issue of Plastic Recycling Update.
		The PET recycling rate fell from 2001's figure of 35.1 percent to 31.1 percent in 2002, and the actual tonnage fell as well, from 612 million pounds to 537 million pounds.
		Recycling rates rose for polypropylene (#5) and PVC (#3) each rose.01 percent, to 3.9 and 0.4 percent respectively, but the actual tonnage of recycled #5 bottles dropped five percent (to 5.4 million pounds) and remained unchanged for #3 bottles, at 500,000 pounds.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /recycling/news/040302pet.htm (325 words)

	BEVERAGE CONTAINER RECYCLING
		PET (polyethylene terephthalate) is a plastic resin used in the packaging of soft drinks, water, juice, “sports drinks,” peanut butter, salad dressings, cosmetics and household cleaners.
		Recycled PET is used in the manufacture of carpeting, food and beverage bottles, strapping, and non-food containers, such as motor oil and household chemical bottles.
		PET bottles collected through bottle deposit programs are generally considered cleaner than those collected at curbside because they are less exposed to cross contamination.
	www.cga.ct.gov /2005/rpt/2005-R-0836.htm (2755 words)

	Social Obligations - About PET Recycling From Bottle Water India Water Treatment Plant
		PET containers are being reused, recycled and recovered but unfortunately, not in India.
		Recycled PET is also used to spin smaller diameter fibres (c.3 decitex).
		PET containers for toiletries and household products are able to “close the recycling loop” because bottles using a percentage of post consumers PET are being introduced in growing quantities.
	www.bottledwaterindia.org /petrecycling.htm (486 words)

	PETrecycling CZ - To support PC PET bottles recycling
		PET bottle has, in comparison with a classic glass bottle evident advantages, such as low weight and a mechanical resistance.
		Recycled plastic is not explicitly excluded from usage for food, but it has to meet same requirements as a pure primary polymer does.
		Recycling of this "secondary raw material" is not such poor in comparison with EU, but in no case it does mean that we shall not improve it any further.
	www.petrecycling.cz /english.htm (1284 words)

	PET-Recyclate for Food Packaging
		In worst-case scenarios, misuse of PET-beverage bottles such as storage of domestic chemicals and the possible introduction of these compounds into the recycling process is simulated by means of the artificial contamination of post-consumer PET-material with model contaminants.
		Indeed, recycled post-consumer PET is used since several years in food packaging, for example as core layer in functional barrier bottles.
		By variation of the initial concentration of the surrogates in the PET material we are able to extrapolate the cleaning efficiency of the recycling process to lower real-life concentration levels.
	www.environmental-expert.com /articles/article404/R99_PET.htm (1076 words)

	Container Recycling Institute - Response - Plastic bottle recycling rate keeps sliding - Plastics News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In an article entitled "Plastic bottle recycling rate keeps sliding" (August 24, 1998) Steve Toloken reported that one of NAPCOR's solutions to declining PET bottle recovery is to "double the 3,500 bottle-shaped recycling bins they are placing at spots where single-serve soft drink bottles are sold".
		This so-called solution to the problem of falling PET bottle recycling rates is no solution at all.
		Of course, an easier and more fool-proof solution would be a national bottle bill, which would more than double the PET soft drink container recycling rate from the current 36 percent to 75 percent.
	www.container-recycling.org /mediafold/letters/plastic/1998-9-pn.htm (336 words)

	Chicago Recycling Coalition - Plastics #1 (PET) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		According to the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), the average household used about 38 pounds of PET plastic bottles in 2002.The total number of PET bottles used in the U.S. in 2003 was 4.293 billion.
		PET use in beverage containers is growing at about a 6 percent rate, with bottled water and ever-new drink products contributing the most to the growth.
		Using recycled PET in new beverage bottles is still limited in the United States.
	www.chicagorecycling.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=81 (571 words)

	Fun Facts About PET
		The PET bottle was patented in 1973 by chemist Nathaniel Wyeth (brother of distinguished American painter Andrew Wyeth).
		Custom bottles (which are bottles used for products other than carbonated soft drinks) represent 62% of all PET bottles available for recycling.
		PET bottles yield enough fiberfill for a ski jacket.
	www.napcor.com /funfacts.htm (272 words)

	Chemie.DE News-Center: Teijin to Establish Bottle-to-Bottle PET Bottle Recycling Business
		As part of the recycling operations, from April 2002, Teijin will increase the capacity of its Tokuyama Factory in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan that recycles PET bottles into dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) that is of equal purity to DMT manufactured from petroleum.
		While the volume of recycled materials made from used PET bottles has risen every year, the difficulty in removing all the impurities has restricted the number of product applications, raising concern that more effective recycling methods are needed.
		Demand for PET bottles in Japan is expected to rise to more than 389,000 tons in 2001 from 332,000 tons in 1999 largely as a result of the introduction of large PET bottles for Japanese teas.
	www.chemie.de /news/e/6789 (494 words)

	letsrecycle.com - News and information for the Recycling and Waste Management Community
		The results of a research project funded by London Remade into the number of jobs created through recycling, reveal that the recycling of plastic PET bottles, like those used for mineral water, creates the highest number of potential jobs compared with processing other recyclable materials.
		The number of potential jobs created through the increased recycling of PET plastic bottles is 14.27 per 1,000 tonnes compared to 1.3 for paper and card.
		Estimates of the potential jobs created per tonne of waste recycled, show a considerably higher job creation ratio for schemes that recycle white goods and furniture, than for the more familiar local authority 'kerbside' recycling schemes.
	www.letsrecycle.com /news/news.jsp?story=1924 (388 words)

	Coca-Cola India :: eKO
		Coca-Cola India is playing a role of catalyst in promoting the “pulling the bottles” into recycling stream and to ensure viability of the pricing structure at each level.
		Company’s effort on PET recycling and RWH has been appreciated by several state pollution control boards.
		PET Recycling gaining momentum only because of multi pronged awareness campaign, including Posters, Kiosks, Painted truck backs, Video films, Ads in TV and Cinema halls besides Consumer education at Points of purchase.
	www.coca-colaindia.com /eko/pet_recycling.asp (173 words)

	PET Projects - May 2003
		The RFP specified that grant funding was available for projects aimed at increasing the collection and recycling of PET plastic bottles of all shapes, sizes, and colors from all venues, communities, and other locations where PET is generated.
		Recycling Concepts/City of St. Louis – to purchase recycling bins for single serve PET container recycling at area special events and festivals.
		Vanderburgh County (Indiana) SWMD – to implement PET recycling at Evansville Otters Baseball Stadium and at Fall Festival.
	www.napcor.com /pp_May03.html (667 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : An initiative to recycle PET bottles
		According to him, the PRS study had found that one of the reasons that the scrap dealers were reluctant to take PET bottles was the high volume it occupied.
		So generating awareness about recyclability of PET is part of the campaign, he said.
		Despite the PET recycling plant being located on the outskirts of Chennai, the raw material contribution from the city is rather low.
	www.blonnet.com /2002/06/14/stories/2002061401171700.htm (958 words)

	Recycling Today Magazine :: News :: Coke Receives Award For Recycled Content Commitment
		The Coca-Cola Company has received an award from the Plastic Redesign Project for its commitment to use 10 percent recycled content in its plastic bottles by 2005, culminating its work to help commercialize the recycling of PET bottles from curbside programs into new bottles.
		It works with packagers to improve the economics of plastics recycling by designing recyclable plastic bottles and by increasing the use of recycled content in plastic bottles.
		Recyclers had been largely relegated to the committed, but low value, fiber markets, with their dependency on the gut-wrenching and extremely volatile markets in China.”
	www.recyclingtoday.com /News/news.asp?Id=3719 (488 words)

	PET Recycling: Thermal Processes: Buhler AG: PET, Thermal Processes, customer orientated, cooling, heating SSP, Solid ...
		The Buhler bottle-to-bottle process converts washed PET flakes from post-consumer bottles into bottle grade pellets which are used as an alternative to virgin material for the production of new food compatible bottles.
		The production costs of bottle feedstock from recovered PET bottles by using the presented technology are lower in comparison with virgin PET bottle material.
		For applications in the field of technical fibres the SSP systems for recycled PET are designed to meet the higher IV requirements in the range of 1.0 dl/g.
	www.buhlergroup.com /21642EN.htm?grp=60 (634 words)

	Recycling Today Magazine :: News :: Tomra, Sumitomo Sign Agreement
		As a result of these efforts, Nakano Ward installed Tomra RVM solutions for collection and recycling of PET bottles in last year.
		The focus will be on collection and recycling of PET bottles.
		The reason for this is that PET bottles represent a relatively new type of beverage container packaging in Japan with strong growth in consumption and currently a very high cost of recycling in existing recycling schemes.
	www.recyclingtoday.com /news/news.asp?ID=9739 (307 words)

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