October 15, 2026
After University of Michigan fans collected more than 47,000 pounds of recyclable and compostable material at last year's record-setting Recycle Bowl, the event returns to Michigan Stadium on October 24, 2026. The fourth annual event aims to break that record while demonstrating how convenient recycling, education, and collaboration can keep valuable materials in use.
September 15, 2026
NAPCOR’s PET Forward Decarbonization Roadmap identifies practical strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from US PET beverage bottles while strengthening recycling and domestic manufacturing. By 2050, emissions intensity could decline approximately 57%, while total annual emissions could fall about 42% even as production grows.
June 9, 2026
First Standalone PET Thermoform Market Analysis Examines Recovery, Recycled Content, Market Trends, and Policy Developments Middleton, Wisconsin (June 9, 2026) – The National Association for PET...
December 10, 2025
North American PET Bottle Collection Remains Above Global Benchmark, Despite Competition from Recycled PET Imports and a Lack of Growth in Post-Consumer Content in Bottles Middleton, Wisconsin...
March 18, 2025
How California and Other States Can Improve PET Thermoform Circularity Through Innovation, Policy Alignment, and Industry Commitments Middleton, Wisconsin (March 18, 2024) – The National...
February 13, 2025
On February 11, The Denver Post published NAPCOR’s letter to the editor responding to the January 24 column by Karen Mockler titled “Time to end the lie of plastics recycling and get...
February 3, 2025
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Srinivasan “Shankar” Prabhushankar as its new Technical Director, effective February 3, 2025. Click here to read more.
December 12, 2024
PET plastic bottle recycling rates across the United States reached new heights in 2023, according to the National Association for PET Container Resources’ (NAPCOR) latest 2023 PET Recycling Report published today. Click to learn more.
March 7, 2024
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) warns of the negative environmental consequences of banning plastic bottles in airports, stadiums, and other large venues, based on the results of its Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) conducted in 2023. Banning the sale of plastic bottles in such venues is purported to be in the interest of the environment, yet research shows that recyclable PET bottles are better for our planet than common alternative beverage packaging.
December 13, 2023
Consumer recycling rates hold steady while end user market shifts continue. Middleton, Wisconsin (December 13, 2023) – The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) has released...
March 6, 2023
This cradle-to-grave LCA looked at commonly used PET plastic, glass and aluminum beverage containers for CSD and still water. It found that glass tends to have the highest environmental impacts, followed by aluminum and then PET bottles. PET plastic bottles are a more sustainable beverage container option and have a lower impact on several key environmental metrics, including greenhouse gas emissions, energy demand, water consumption, smog, acid rain and eutrophication potential.
December 14, 2022
NAPCOR has released its 2021 PET Recycling Report. Several significant achievements were documented: the largest amount of postconsumer PET bottles ever collected in the U.S. (exceeding1.9 billion pounds for the first time), and PET thermoform collection in the U.S./Canada reached its highest-ever total of 142 million pounds for the year 2021.
August 3, 2022
NAPCOR and its Board of Directors are pleased to announce the appointment of Laura Stewart to the position of Executive Director effective August 1, 2022 (replacing outgoing Executive Director Darrel Collier, who retired in April 2022) Since joining NAPCOR in 2017, Laura served as Communications Director, and most recently, Director of Operations.
June 8, 2022
NAPCOR will serve on the Advisory Committee of The Recycling Partnership's PET Recycling Coalition, an initiative informed by industry knowledge and expertise to improve PET circularity. Its work will focus on addressing key opportunities to increase recycling of this valuable material, including bottles, thermoforms, and opaque and pigmented containers.
November 2, 2021
NAPCOR announced today the release of its 2020 PET Recycling Report. Overall, the 26th annual report revealed a 10 percent increase in end use consumption of RPET in the U.S. and Canada. This increase signals strong support of postconsumer content in brand packaging, and demonstrates the resiliency of PET’s value in recycling-minded communities -- even during a pandemic.
September 14, 2021
The glass, metal and plastic PET container industries agree that deposit systems lead to higher recycling rates, as well as better quality, higher value material enabling circularity. We support efficient, effective deposit systems and are eager to work with lawmakers on how to design and implement such well-designed systems with the principles below.
June 15, 2021
The U.S. Pact’s Roadmap is designed to kick-start action and help U.S. industry leaders and packaging producers develop a national strategy, advance shared goals, and measure the strength of progress through annual reporting.
December 1, 2020
The report cites a 2019 United States recycling rate of 27.9 percent for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, a slight decrease from the 2018 rate of 28.9 percent.
November 5, 2020
Greenhouse gas emissions of 60% may be achieved when using recycled PET in place of virgin PET as shown in NAPCOR's latest PET resin life cycle analysis.
June 5, 2020
A June 2020 publication of Consumer Reports articles “How to Eat Less Plastic” and “What’s Gone Wrong with Plastic Recycling” contained false and misleading information about Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastics.
April 20, 2020
Leadership from the aluminum, glass and plastic (PET) industries have joined together over the past month to emphasize the critical role that the recycled bottles and cans redeemed and returned through the country’s 10 beverage container deposit programs play in the supply chains of essential packaging.
April 17, 2020
During these challenging times, the need to continue recycling your PET bottles and containers is more important than ever. Most curbside recycling programs are accepting PET bottles and containers,...
April 2, 2020
United in our common interest in protecting post-consumer collection during these challenging times, NAPCOR has joined a unique partnership with the Can Manufacturers Institute and the Glass Packaging Institute in issuing a letter to the state of Michigan, urging state leaders to resume deposit container redemption.
March 30, 2020
The vast majority of recycled plastic is PET (polyethylene terephthalate, marked by a #1), which is 100% and infinitely recyclable; more than 1.8 billion pounds of it is collected in the U.S. every year and transformed into everything from beverage containers to athletic apparel.
December 16, 2019
The report cites a 2018 United States recycling rate of 28.9 percent for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, essentially unchanged from the 2017 rate of 29.2 percent. Despite the flat recycle rate, purchases of US bottles by US reclaimers increased 16 percent to 1,673 million pounds compared to 1,442 million pounds in 2017 which more than offset declines by exports.
December 4, 2019
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) announced 3 December 2019 that it has, through its indirect subsidiary Indorama Ventures Holdings LP, signed a definitive Share Purchase Agreement on 3rd December 2019 with LQ Inc. to acquire 100% equity stake of Green Fiber International Inc. (“GFI”), a company incorporated in USA and having plastics recycling facility in Fontana, California, USA.
May 1, 2019
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) announces the move of its headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina effective May 1, 2019.
February 1, 2019
NAPCOR welcomes Darrel Collier as its next Executive Director, replacing Rick Moore who will retire at the end of April 2019.
November 15, 2018
The report cites a 2017 United States recycling rate of 29.2 percent for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, reflecting a slight increase over the 2016 rate of 28.4%.
August 29, 2018
“NAPCOR is pleased to welcome Evertis and APG Polytech as our newest members,” said Executive Director Rick Moore. “We welcome the industry perspectives these companies will bring to the NAPCOR table, and look forward to long and productive relationships with both.”
March 21, 2018
Corpus Christi Polymers LLC (“CC Polymers”) - a newly formed joint venture between Alpek, Indorama Ventures Holdings LP, and Far Eastern Investment Ltd - has entered into an asset purchase agreement with M&G USA Corp. for the PTA-PET plant in Corpus Christi, Texas.
February 19, 2018
NAPCOR is pleased to announce its recent hire of Alasdair Carmichael as their Program Director. Alasdair comes to NAPCOR with over 40 years’ experience in the synthetic fibers industry including his work as Director Fibers, Americas with PCI Wood Mackenzie and the PCI Group (Petrochemical Consultants International) since 2000.
December 20, 2017
Rick Moore shares why NAPCOR expansion in Mexico is important for PET packaging.
November 16, 2017
PetStar Hosts NAPCOR Annual Meeting in Toluca, Mexico. Meeting attendees observed first-hand how committed the company is to collect and reclaim 175 million pounds of PET bottles in a sustainable manner.
September 14, 2017
Package designers and engineers, sustainability leaders and brand owners have an improved resource for information pertaining to PET packaging.
March 7, 2017
The PET package has come a long way since the founding of the National Association for PET Container Resources 30 years ago in October of 1987. "The View from NAPCOR: Path of progress for PET" (Plastics Recycling Update) takes a look back.
December 5, 2016
Jointly sponsored video highlights recycling jobs in the Carolinas.
October 13, 2016
NAPCOR and APR release Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2015
October 8, 2015
Letter to the editor sent in response to "Reign of Recycling" article by New York Times writer, John Tierney.
July 8, 2015
Industry groups fund MRF study to better understand material flow through MRFs and how more good material might be captured.
