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PET bottle recycling hits 40% in Europe

The latest data from PET recycling organisation Petcore shows that 40% of all PET bottles introduced to the European marketplace were collected for recycling in 2007 – a 20% increase on the previous year.

The association says that European post sorting PET collection reached 1.13m tonnes last year.

Petcore said there was an overall estimated total mechanical reclamation capacity in the European region of 1.2m tonnes in 2008, with approximately 100,000 tpa of extra capacity planned.