Scanning for Trends: Filter, Identify, Prepare
- Confronted with a chaotic world overloaded with data and information, it’s difficult to cut through the noise and identify industry trends.
- The RPET Trends process allows you to spot potential disruptions or opportunities ahead of time and prepare for potential future shifts in industry dynamics.
- Every month, we’ll filter and analyse the latest recycling market information (see Czapp’s PET News Feed) and reveal interesting market trends and patterns.
The Trends Matrix below shows those market changes that we believe deserve greater attention. Full articles covering each of the key trends will follow through the month.
This Month’s Top Trends
The War Against Plastic Enters its Next Stage
- A renewed emphasis on plastic waste and environmental activism is emerging post-COVID.
- COP26, Panorama, and anti-plastic rhetoric by global leaders have sparked the next stage in the war against plastics.
- What pragmatic steps could the plastics industry take to head off demand destruction?
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The Return of the Plant Bottle
- Following its first-generation PlantBottle™ in 2009, Coca-Cola has relaunched the Plant Bottle with a next-gen prototype.
- The new bottle is produced using 100% bio-based feedstock, including plant-based paraxylene (bPX).
- With a multitude of plant-based packaging hitting the markets, what’s the right solution for the beverage industry?
- And does the new PlantBottle fit with a World Without Waste?
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Tray-2-Tray Recycling Breakthroughs
- The European Tray and Sheet market consumes around 1.3m tonnes of PET annually, but products are often difficult to recycle.
- New initiatives and technologies are under development to recover PET trays and overcome quality and technical challenges.
- Recently, Tesco and Faerch developed a closed loop recycling solution for secondary PET plastic packaging
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US Chemical Recycling Becomes a Reality
- Chemical recycling is poised for explosive growth within the US.
- LyondellBasell, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies, are all planning near-term advanced recycling projects in the US.
- New plans come at a time when recycled content commitments are increasing at extraordinary speed across the food industry.
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Progressive Plastics Bans in Europe
- Following the implementation of the European Single-Use Plastics Directive, single-use plastic plates, cutlery, straws, balloon sticks and cotton buds can no longer be placed on EU-country markets.
- Governments are now beginning to look at further reducing excess plastic packaging and at bans on additional plastic items.
- France is set to ban plastic packaging for most fruit and vegetables from January 2022; Spain is targeting a similar ban from 2023.
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Other Opinions You Might Be Interested In…
- Changing Regulations Trigger RPET Boom in Asia
- RPET Trends: Will Refillable Bottles Go Mainstream?
- RPET Trends: Tackling Hard-to-Recycle Plastics
- RPET Trends: US Plastics Regulations Gain Momentum
- RPET Trends: Growth in Compostable Packaging
- RPET Trends: Will Refillable Bottles Go Mainstream?
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