Value Chain Of Recycled PET In Brazil
Brazil recycles more PET than most countries, yet only 57% of bottles are collected. With new tech, rising demand, and fairer policies on the horizon, can the nation turn plastic waste into sustainable wealth? An article of innovation, inequality, and opportunity—read to explore the shift.
One of the significant challenges for authorities, entrepreneurs, and companies that work with PET recycling in Brazil is raising the collection level, which is currently around 57%.
The country is one of the main recyclers of this type of material in the world, as it has a hot tropical climate and a great demand for soft drinks, juices, and water.
Although there has been an increase in the prices of post-consumer plastics in the last two years, this has not been reflected in the waste pickers, who still receive pre-pandemic values. This practice gives the intermediary, who presses the material, a greater margin than the others in the chain, meaning that those who actually collect the material are not interested in collecting more, as with aluminum cans, which have a higher value, and which consequently recycle around 98% of these.
Currently, there is a great plan in the next 2-3 years for the main brands of soft drinks to pass their packaging 100% using B2B technology. This is already being reflected in the increase in material values throughout its chain.
Large companies associated with these soft drink brands are expanding their plants, and others are setting up in the country.…
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