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Champions for Change-Applications Guidance for Innovations:

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The Association of Post Consumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) recognizes that packaging
innovation drives the growth of bottles available for recycling and that growth in the supply of
these bottles is essential to the well being of the plastic bottle recycling industry. APR also
recognizes that some innovations may create bottles that present technical challenges for
recycling. This document represents a tool to help the innovator understand the approximate
effect of the innovation on PET plastic bottle recycling processes.

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