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Article: US recycling more plastic; Drop in resin sales helps HDPE, PET recycling rates.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- November 2, 2009
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Byline: Mike Verespej
In absolute pounds, the number of high density polyethylene and PET bottles recycled continued to increase in 2008, and so did the HDPE and PET recycling rates.
But the amount of pounds added to the recycling stream in 2008 for reclaimers was less than in 2007, and the primary reason that those recycling rates increased was because sales of both virgin HDPE and PET resins fell in 2008.
HDPE bottle resin sales decreased by 304 million pounds, or 8.6 percent, and PET resin sales decreased by 317 million pounds, or 5.6 percent. The recycling rate is calculated by dividing the number of pounds recycled by the number of pounds ...