PetStar boosts recycling capacity to 86,000 tons annually with $143M expansion, processing 5.5 billion bottles in circular ...

PET is a popular polyester, used to produce plastic packaging, textile fibers and almost 500 billion plastic bottles a year around the world. A French company called Carbios has announced a process it ...

There are numerous options in food packaging materials, and many major food packagers and retailers often make a choice based on non-scientific information. Clearly Clean Products LLC (Orwigsburg, PA) ...

Consumers, global brands and governments are push for more recyclable packaging. Klöckner Pentaplast has now introduced recyclable PET blister packaging that is easy to drop into existing operations.

Although 2030 is years away, a new bottle has been developed by Alpla and KHS Group that already meets the 30% recycled content requirement for one-way PET bottles that will kick in that year. The new ...

Extrupet launches Cape Town’s first bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant, producing 15,000 tonnes of food-grade rPET ...

BP has developed what it describes as an “enhanced recycling technology,” BP Infinia, that enables currently unrecyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to be transformed back into new, ...

Several companies have announced the formation of a new consortium that aims to address the problem of plastic waste by speeding up the commercialization of BP Infinia recycling technology that was ...

Scientists are thumbing their noses at responsible parents everywhere by putting cheap plastic in the microwave. Single-use polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic is being “reduced to flakes” before ...