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The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
The recent dialogue in the industry, sparked by the likes of John Galt, at Plastic News, has centered on a powerful truth: PET recycling is not a failed experiment. It is a proven, highly efficient system when the right conditions are in place. As a PET film producer we see this every day in practice, not theory. PET is the most recycled plastic in the world for a reason, it is a material designed by its very nature to be remade, maintaining performance and value across multiple life cycles.
In the US, where coherent policy frameworks exist, measurable progress follows. Assigning a tangible value to PET bottles, most notably through Deposit Return Systems (DRS), has demonstrably increased collection and recycling rates. Michigan’s DRS is a clear example of successfully incentivized return behaviour. This echoes sentiments from NAPCOR, "What’s missing is the policy that aligns incentives with material value." The industry is now calling for expanded Deposit Return Systems (DRS) to ensure that all PET formats are captured within a high-value, closed-loop system.
However, policy alone is not enough. The technical capability to recycle PET is in our hands. Our role now as film producers is to ensure that every form of PET, whether it’s a simple water bottle or a high-barrier food tray, is designed and managed with a clear and economically viable path back into production. This requires a fundamental shift in mindset: from linear producers focused on volume, to circular partners responsible for managing molecular resources.
This is where innovation becomes critical. Advances in recycling technologies are essential to extend circularity beyond mono material applications and into more complex structures.
Technologies such as Perpetuity®. Our solvent-free delamination solution for multilayer PET, demonstrate that even complex structures can be reintegrated into close-loop systems without compromising food safety or material quality1.
Recycling success should not be limited to bottles alone. To truly advance circularity, PET trays, films, and multilayer structures must also be part of high-value recycling streams — supported by both policy frameworks and technological solutions.
Recycling works. The systems, the material, and the demand are already there. Now, through policy alignment, design responsibility, and scalable technological innovation, we must make sure it works for everything we produce.
1 Perpetuity® currently operates at our site in Portugal and is a scalable technology which we aim to deploy to other markets.
