Well it's possibly different in the USA, if recovery is only 19.6%. In
W. Europe it's well over 60% and recycling into bottles for drinks is
forbidden, for the reasons stated in my earlier post, so yes, there is a
glut caused by much greater recycling and smaller consumption of the
flakes. See http://www.petcore.org/euro_stat_01.html (a bit old, but OK
nevertheless). BTW, carpets in Europe also are more often of traditional
fibres, than in the USA (except the very cheapest, of course). Maybe
it's because of PET bottles that I perpetually get electrostatically
shocked in US hotels! :-)
Brian
Robin Ingenthron wrote:
> Brian --- Egads, is someone throwing away PET bottles? Really?
> http://www.plasticstechnology.com/pricing/recyc.html
>
> http://www.container-recycling.org/assets/docs/PN-RecycledPETshortage-4-27-05.doc
>
>
> Last I checked, at well over $500 per ton, there has continued to be a
> shortage of PET bottles in the industry, which includes mainly carpet
> manufacturing and textiles. There is a problem in the USA and elsewhere
> having to do with effective collection infrastructures for single-serve
> containers, which are primarily consumed on the road away from home and
> curbside/kerbside recycling infrastructure... bottle deposit law states are
> doing much better than non-deposit states.
>
> Massachusetts did an opinion research study in the 1990s (while I was at
> DEP) which showed one of the strongest reasons / excuses given by
> non-participants, higher than "inconvenience", was the stated belief that
> after they were collected, recyclables are just thrown away anyway. If
> other people are saying what you've said, Brian, the shortage may be a
> self-inflicted wound.
>
> Reduce reuse recycle hierarchy still wins...
>
> Robin
>
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