NAPCOR’s 2024 PET Recycling Report Featured in SPE Thermoforming Quarterly
NAPCOR’s latest insights about PET (polyethylene terephthalate, look for the #1 in the triangle) plastic recycling are reaching new audiences.
A summary of our 2024 PET Recycling Report was recently published in the Q1 edition of SPE Thermoforming Quarterly, the official magazine of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Thermoforming Division, and is now featured on their homepage.
Bringing Critical Data to the Thermoforming Community
NAPCOR’s 2024 report marks 30 years of continuous, data-driven tracking of PET recycling in North America.
This year’s findings highlight a system that remains resilient and operating at scale, while facing growing pressures—from rising rPET imports and market volatility to evolving packaging formats.
A key focus is shifts related to PET thermoforms, which are playing an increasingly important role in the recycling stream and shaping the future of circularity.
Why It Matters
PET thermoforms are no longer a niche packaging format. As recovery grows, they are:
- Increasingly commingled with PET bottle bales at higher percentages
- Introducing new processing and yield challenges
- Driving the need for better design, technology, and policy alignment
- Lagging behind the PET bottle market in driving demand for post-consumer rPET
Reaching SPE’s audience helps connect recycling system performance with the engineering and design decisions that influence it.
Thirty years of data show that PET recycling works, but the next chapter will depend on informed decisions across the system.
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We’re proud to see NAPCOR’s work featured by SPE and to help advance conversations across the plastics value chain.
View the feature: https://thermoformingdivision.com/spe-thermoforming-quarterly/
Access the full report: https://napcor.com/reports-resources/
