News & Events

Eastman has entered an exclusive negotiation with Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine as the preferred location of the molecular recycling facility it plans to build in France. 

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Today on World Recycling Day remember that PET is fully recyclable and made to be remade. PET - 1 material of choice for recycling. You can tell that it is PET by the 1 on the bottom. 

While PET is already 100% recyclable & made to be remade, on the 2^nd of March 2022 the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi (UNEA 5.2) agreed to develop a treaty on plastic pollution. The objective is to promote the sustainable production & consumption of plastics.
An intergovernmental negotiating committee will negotiate the details & complete its work by 2024.

Carbios to build in France its first-of-a-kind manufacturing plant for fully bio-recycled PET in partnership with Indorama Ventures. This important step of the development will undoubtedly benefit the chemical and enzymatic recycling players, to present these technologies as complementary to mechanical recycling and to move PET recycling into large scale operations. Indorama’s co-investment to accommodate this unit is highlighting its confidence in PET enzymatic recycling. 

PETCORE EUROPE as a member of PolyREC® is thrilled to announce that PolyREC® has been recognized as a data collector for the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) and RecoTrace™ now is the first comprehensive data system to monitor plastic recycling and recycled plastics use. 

This report, delivered by PRE in partnership with PETCORE EUROPE, NMWE and UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, provides the latest data and trends on: the current state of the PET market in Europe, key changes impacting the market and the challenges faced by the supply chain and also talks about how the future PET market will look like.

EPBP and RecyClass sign off strategic collaboration.

Eastman to invest up to $1 billion to accelerate circular economy through building world’s largest molecular plastics recycling facility in France.

French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman (NYSE:EMN) Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa will jointly announce Eastman’s plan to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. This facility would use Eastman’s polyester renewal technology to recycle up to 160,000 metric tonnes annually of hard-to-recycle plastic waste that is currently being incinerated.

This is the fourth newsletter of 2021 that is featuring messages from our President and our Executive Director, updates on activities by our Working Groups, our Communications Campaign, Social Media, policy and regulatory developments at EU and national level, information about our internal structure and many other interesting insights.

All bottles 100% rPET

Nutroma's goal for the future? That all the bottles are made of 100% rPET. This is how they strive for circular packaging. In other words: products that are recycled again and again so that they can make new ones. Nutroma is not quite there yet, but they're working on it. And that is an important first step.

PETCORE EUROPE is thrilled to announce the launch of its new logo as a part of the ongoing evolution of the association, representing the entire PET value chain and pioneering PET Circularity since 1993.

Our professional profile has grown and evolved over the last decades, so we felt a need to alter our logo reflecting who we are today and symbolizing our dynamic development towards PET circularity.