PET Recycling

♻️ What is PET Recycling?

PET product varieties also expanded from the initial polyester staple fiber to polyester staple fiber, polyester filament, polyester bottles, polyester film, nonwoven fabrics, engineering plastics and composite multi-functional products, such as many series of hundreds of products and thousands of specifications. Due to the increasing social demand, PET polyester production has grown rapidly. Since 2003, the global production capacity of PET has been expanding at an average annual rate of about 9%, and in 2005, the production capacity has reached about 54.7 million tons with an output of 41 million tons, and by 2008, the global PET production capacity reached 67 million tons with an output of over 50 million tons.

At present, PET products are mostly disposable consumer products, and with them comes a large amount of waste PET materials. Waste PET materials are chemically inert and not easily degraded by air or microorganisms in a short period of time, occupying a lot of space and causing "white pollution". The current task of protecting the ecological environment is urgent, and the recycling of used PET materials is beneficial to environmental protection, resource conservation and sustainable development. The recycling of waste PET beverage bottles can not only reduce environmental pollution, but also turn waste into treasure and gain huge economic benefits from it. With the popularity of non-fiber PET and other packaging products, the technology of PET recycling and reprocessing has emerged in large numbers. The continuous and rapid growth of PET packaging consumption has created an urgent need to increase the recycling and utilization of PET waste, and the recycling technology of PET material has been innovated.