PET bottles
PET bottles PET (polyethylene terephthalate) – the basic ingredients of this material are natural and synthetic polymers, developed as a…
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Did you know that:Until 1 January 2025 member states will not accept waste other than dangerous and neutral that are suitable for recycling on wastelands, including plastics, metals, glass, paper and cardboard as well as biodegradable waste.
In 2020, in accordance with the EU regulations, Poland will have to achieve 50% level of recycling and readiness for reuse of paper, metals, plastics and glass. From 1 July 2017 new rules of segregation of communal waste are in place in the whole country. From that moment, the waste will be sorted in four factions.
“Wastes are not rubbish, but valuable resources.”
According to the British “The Guardian”, in one minute we buy approximately 1 million of them. What makes it even worse, is that until 2021 this value will have increased by 20% what means that in 2020 their sales will amount billion and a half per year. In 2016, more than 480 billion plastic bottles were sold worldwide. 10 years before it was 300 billion. While the majority of water or drink bottles are produced of reusable polyethylene terephthalate (PET), they are still mostly thrown into oceans and disposed on wastelands. According to “The Guardian” in 2016 only less then a half of them was recycled. 300 billion of aluminium cans are sold worldwide per year. 80 billion in Europe, 100 billion in the USA, 6 billion in Poland. In 2016, in the European Union, in more than 20 paper mills, a total amount of 47% drink boxes was recycled. This percentage is equal to approximately 430 000 tons of cardboard.