PET figures
- A look at a crude oil barrel:
- Less than 0.1% of a crude oil barrel goes into PET bottles and containers, while 76% is used in transportation. After the industrial sector, transportation is the second contributor to man-made carbon emissions.
- Transportation energy to deliver bottles to fillers/retailers is approximately 13.7 MJ per kg of PET compared to 25.4 MJ per kg of glass.
- For 100 units of energy used to make bottle-grade PET resin it takes 50 units of energy to turn post-consumer PET bottles into the bottle-grade RPET.
