Plastic is a remarkable material in many ways. Cheap, durable, and versatile, it is responsible for a large percentage of the modern world we live in. As we all know, though, it’s not without its ...
While prices for mixed-color and natural high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) bales have contracted, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle bales have maintained their value, Bill ...
Doğa is using Starlinger PET beverage bottle-to-bottle recycling equipment at a facility in northwestern Turkey. The two installed Starlinger lines at DoğaPET have combined output capacity of 28,000 ...
MIDDLETON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) has released its 2022 PET Recycling Report. The report found that PET recycling rates held steady with ...
Professor Kotohiro Nomura's research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed an efficient method for the exclusive depolymerization of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PET bottles and ...
Austin, Texas — Improvements at Evergreen Plastics Inc.'s Riverside, Calif., PET recycling facility will allow for the wider use of curbside collected material as the company looks to expand the ...
National Harbor, Md. — It's well understood in the recycling business that the flow of discarded PET bottles into clothing and carpeting is currently a one-way street. PET water and soda bottles can ...
Africa’s first bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant has been opened in Wadeville, Johannesburg, South Africa, by the largest PET bottle recycler in South Africa, Extrupet. The 3,000 m² Wadeville plant ...
Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...
With an estimated 500 billion plastic bottles used globally each year, the achievement represents a small but meaningful ...
Coca-Cola India is collaborating with India’s leading retail group, Reliance Retail, on a PET recycling program that gives consumers incentives for returning empty PET bottles. The partners aim to ...