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US market impact of meeting RPET sustainability goals
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
Many brand owners have announced ambitious sustainability goals for the US over the next decade with recycled PET content as its main component. There is certainly concerns whether these recycled content goals are achievable. However, it is also important to understand the implications to the virgin PET resin market and its upstream aromatics raw material stream if, in fact, these goals are met by 2030. In this insight report, Wood Mackenzie Chemicals calculates the trade-off between meeting recycled PET recycled content goals and its impact on the virgin side of the PET resin market in the US, including answering the following questions: • How much lost virgin PET resin production would be lost by 2025 and 2030? • Will this change to recycled PET content impact virgin PET resin capacity? • How lost virgin PET resin production would impact the upstream PTA and PX markets. • Could this also impact both PTA and PX capacity?
Table of contents
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RPET sustainability goals: potential impact on US virgin PET resin and aromatic intermediates markets
- Summary
- Review
- 2020-2024 goals
- 2025-2029 goals
- 2030+ goals
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RPET content goals: two scenarios
- Scenario #1: RPET required to meet sustainability goals for CSD and water PET bottles only
- Basic assumptions for the US
- Scenario #2: RPET required to meet sustainability goals for all beverage PET bottles
- Basic assumptions for the US
- What if these recycled content sustainability goals are achieved?
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Impact on the US VPET market
- Scenario #1
- Scenario #2
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Impact on the US PTA market
- Scenario #1
- Scenario #2
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Impact on the US PX market
- Scenario #1
- Scenario #2
- Summary table
- Conclusion
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- RPET bottles base-line versus required: scenario #1
- RPET bottles base-line vs required: scenario #2
- Scenario 1: VPET lost
- Scenario 2: VPET lost
- Scenario 1: PTA lost
- Scenario 2: PTA lost
- Scenario 1: PX lost
- Scenario 2: PX lost
- Scenario 1: projected lost VPET, PTA and PX production (kt)
- Scenario 2: projected lost VPET, PTA and PX production (kt)
What's included
This report contains:
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