Recycled PET & Market Confusion

Frédéric Blanchard, plant director of the Beaune facility, said: “Two of the major challenges facing rPET recycling for food-contact applications are the availability and quality of bale feed-stock. “This imbalance of demand and supply is causing the price of the raw material – post-consumer PET bales – to rise to record highs, albeit recently price levels have dropped significantly as such high price levels were unsustainable. Longer term prices are set to rise once again and to track virgin PET pricing.” Additional activities such as blending, process controls and changeovers all lead to increased costs.

Yet, customers still think recycled PET should be cheaper than virgin PET.

Read More: Market fails to understand recycled PET by David Eldridge

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