Product & Innovation
What is the difference between PET and RPET recycled plastic?
Answered independently in 1 episodes. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
The short answer
What the archive says
01There is a real difference between PET (bottles that go from consumer to blue bin to redemption center) and RPET, or outbound plastic collected from landfills, beaches and waterways — only the latter actually cleans up pollution. source →
02Because RPET properties are already degraded by recycling plus UV and soil exposure, Opolis had to trademark and secure IP on a process that reinforces the plastic before it can become a durable good. source →
In their words
What was actually said
So it's fairly competitive with what are other other sunglasses companies are doing with the recycled fishing nets, HDPE, which is shampoo or detergent bottles, mixtures and stuff like that. But for us, we're going to be the first one on the market to be a hundred percent RPET or recycled PET, which is a water bottle you find in the landfill or the ocean.
The episodes