Jengwan Shih, a senior specialist at the EPA's Bureau of Solid Waste Control, says that plastic bottles can't be recycled like glass ones (which can maintain their original appearance and be returned to the market after high temperature disinfecting), but the technology for using reclaimed bottles to make other plastic products is already easily available abroad.
環保署廢棄物管理處科長卓英仁表示，回收後的寶特瓶雖不似玻璃瓶，可以高溫消毒殺菌後，維持原來面貌再回到市面上，但寶特瓶回收後再製成其他塑膠製品使用的技術，在國外已是輕而易舉。