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Recycled PET (rPET) Products

What is rPET?

Regular PET is one of the most common plastics used in packaging, you will find that most water bottles are made from PET. If you recycle your water bottle or another PET item, it gets ground up and melted into pellets. The resulting pellets are rPET and can be moulded into many shapes. rPET can withstand temperatures up to 70℃ and, as you might expect, has fairly similar characteristics to PET.

When is a product classified as rPET?

For a product to be classified as containing rPET, it must contain minimum amounts of recycled content. However, some countries haven’t yet established these minimum amounts, and there are notEU-wide rules preventing businesses from marketing a product as with as little as 1-5% recycled content as “recycled”.

Calling something “recycled” when it is composed of less than half recycled materials feels dishonest. As we’re all about transparency at Verive, therefore we pledge to commit to a minimum of 51% or more recycled content. That way, when you choose us, you are certain that at the very least half the product is made from recycled materials.

What is the best end-of-life for rPET?

Products that contain rPET should be recycled.

Recycling rPET packaging is a fantastic way to help keep resources in use and reduce our global environmental footprint. So rPET can be treated like most other plastic packaging items and put in the plastic recycling bin.

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