Alpla, a plastic packaging specialist, with 23,300 employees and 190 production facilities in 46 countries worldwide, has reached a PET recycling capacity of 266,000 t in its several recycling plants worldwide. Further growth expected! PETplanet spoke to Dr Karl Hagspiel, Senior Circular Economy Expert at the PRSE trade fair in Amsterdam about Alpla's recycling and sustainability strategy and the current challenges in the rPET market.