Lightweight Bottles Cause Headaches!

Producing lighter PET bottles has been embraced by manufacturers to cut carbon emissions and costs, but some recyclers claim this can result in bottles ending up in landfill. Jonathan Short, MD of Eco Plastics, said that density separation processors have difficulties in detecting the lighter bottles. As bottle walls become thinner they become similar to their labels, making separation more challenging and increasing the likelihood of "losing the PET with the label," he said in this feature.