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General
Polyethylene
Terephthalate (PET) is one of the most commonly used food grade
packaging plastics due to it's chemical inertness and appealing physical
properties.
PET is a plastic that can successfully provide a clear,
strong bottle, and one that is mostly impermeable to carbon dioxide.
Process
- PET bottles are
manufactured by the process of injection stretch blow moulding which was
developed specifically to maximise the beneficial properties of PET.
- Recycling of
PET Bottles is the activity whereby
bottles made out
of
PET are
collected, sorted and processed in order to reuse the material out of
which they are made.
- Antimony is often
used as a catalyst in the production of PET plastic.
- Collected PET bottles are frequently recycled into fiber, film,
sheet, pellets and new bottles.
Uses
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Producers of barbecue sauce also
use PET bottles which allows for the oxidation of the sauce by oxygen
gas going into the bottle.
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Reclaimed PET is in demand for
fiber, sheeting, nonfood containers, strapping, and molding compounds.
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PET was originally produced to be
used in fibres. Bottles now represent the most significant use of PET
moulding resins.
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The use of plastic bottles
eliminates the problem of breakage associated with glass and, like
glass, PET is totally recyclable.
Market
- The bottled water
market is the largest segment of the beverage sector by volume, with 160
billion liters sold.
- A major trend in the
beverage packaging sector is the replacement of glass bottles by PET
containers.
- European producers of
high quality mineral water, as opposed to table water or spring water,
are starting to use PET bottles.
- In Europe and the USA
fresh milk and milk beverages are marketed in PET bottles.
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