The packaging is a key element, it allows every product to be transported, bought and sold safely. No doubts about the role of packaging, but, once exhausted its function, once removed the product, whether food or not, to use it, where does the packaging?

Fortunately, even in Italy, the packaging ends, increasingly, in the right place, back to life, form and dignity, through the intelligent recycling. It does not remain inert waste to be disposed of, but also assumes a new utility.

According to the latest estimates, the share of packaging recycling rates reached very encouraging. The 75% of packaging, which can be of wood, plastic, steel or glass, is recycled.

Suffice it to say that, in 2010, were well recovered 8.5 million tonnes of packaging, of a total of 11.4 million tons on the market.

350 billions units: this should bet he quantity of PET containers produced this year, according to Euromonitor, a London based company specialised in market researches. Out of these containers, many are utilized in the beverage industry, whereas PET confirms to bet he most used material in the world.
Side-by-side to the constant increase of the PET bottle utilisation, the importance of the factor of efficiency and profitability in the production of PET containers grows-up as well: this requirement is fully satisfied by the manufacturers of filling and packing machinery, which offers technologically advanced solutions allowing to save space and costs.
Among its features, it is a quite light material (40 grams approx per a 1.5L bottle), unbreakable and 100% recyclable.
For instance, the amount of companies utilizing bottles for cosmetics in recycled PET are in constant growth. In fact, the new technologies ensure the same mechanical properties of the raw PET and a similar brightness, without giving up to capturing packaging thanks to a wide possibilities of decorative subjects.