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2024 PET Recycling Report

Cover of NAPCOR’s “2024 PET Recycling Report.” The design features a dark blue background with the NAPCOR logo and the text “2024 PET Recycling Report” in large white lettering at the top. In the center is a circular graphic surrounding the PET resin identification symbol — a white triangle with the number 1 and the letters “PET” inside — representing PET plastic recycling and circularity. Decorative green, yellow, and blue color blocks appear along the left edge. A QR code is positioned in the lower right corner, and the publication date, December 10, 2025, appears in a white box at the bottom left.

For thirty years, NAPCOR has produced an annual report that serves as the definitive record of PET (polyethylene terephthalate, #1 resin identification code) recycling activity. Based on a comprehensive survey of PET recyclers in the US and Canada, the 2024 PET Recycling Report provides the official PET bottle recycling rates in the United States and North America, a clear view of key trends shaping the PET recycling landscape, and an in-depth look at the PET industry’s performance, challenges, and opportunities.

In this 30th-anniversary year, we decided to refine the report, focusing on what is essential, meaningful, and most valuable to members, policymakers, industry leaders, and other stakeholders who rely on it each year. The result is the most focused PET Recycling Report we have ever produced—one that honors 30 years of data-driven insight while meeting the needs of today’s rapidly changing recycling and packaging landscape.

Infographic titled “NAPCOR 2024 PET Recycling Report” celebrating the report’s 30th year. Key findings include: U.S. PET bottle collection rate was 30.2% in 2024, down from 32.5% in 2023 but above the 10-year average of 29.5%. The North American PET bottle collection rate was 39.2%, remaining above the 30% “in practice and at scale” threshold and continuing a trend of exceeding 30% since tracking began in 2019. A comparison chart shows North America’s collection rate (39.2%) exceeded the U.S. rate (30.2%) in 2024. Another chart shows growth in recycled PET (rPET) use in bottles over time, with the bottle sector consuming about 61% of total rPET used in U.S. and Canadian markets in 2024. Average recycled PET content in U.S. bottles reached 15.9% in 2024, above the prior three-year average of 13.7%, despite a slight decline from 2023. The infographic notes that NAPCOR’s 2024 PET Recycling Report provides a comprehensive analysis of PET bottle collection, recycling system performance, and end-market dynamics in North America, and includes a QR code and link to napcor.com/reports-resources.What’s Inside

  • PET bottle recycling rates for North America and the US
  • PET bale pricing, reclamation capacity, and plant utilization
  • Recovery of PET thermoforms and other non-bottle PET
  • US postconsumer PET bottle trade
  • Clean outputs of PET reclamation
  • US rPET generation rate from bottles
  • rPET color analysis
  • Material efficiency rate and reclamation byproducts
  • rPET imports and end-use applications

Click here to read our press release about NAPCOR’s 2024 PET Recycling Report top-line findings.

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2024 PET Thermoform Market Analysis Report 

Cover of NAPCOR’s “2024 PET Thermoform Market Analysis.” The design features a bright green background with the NAPCOR logo and the title “2024 PET Thermoform Market Analysis” in large white lettering. Centered on the page is a circular graphic surrounding the PET resin identification symbol—a white triangle containing the number 1 and the letters “PET”—representing PET packaging and recycling. Decorative blue, yellow, and light blue color blocks appear along the left edge. A QR code is positioned in the lower right corner, and the publication date, June 2026, appears in a white box at the bottom left.

NAPCOR’s 2024 PET Thermoform Market Analysis provides a comprehensive look at PET thermoform packaging production, recycling, use of recycled content, and policy developments across the United States and Canada.

This first standalone and fifth annual market analysis builds on NAPCOR’s longstanding work tracking PET recycling, recovery, and circularity trends across North America.

Click here to read our press release about NAPCOR’s 2024 PET Thermoform Market Analysis.

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