The Government will phase out the use of plastic and PET containers for liquid formulations from the market in phases, in line with the recommendations of an expert panel, but will give enough time to ...

Düsseldorf, Germany — A Cyprus-based company, Cypet Technologies Ltd., is small in size, with only 40 employees. But its quest to take PET containers to new heights shows its aspirations and ...

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has released a life cycle assessment (LCA) comparing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, glass ...

I highly doubt a new life cycle assessment (LCA) showing that plastic bottles are less harmful to the environment than aluminum cans and glass bottles will change any minds in our tribal culture, but ...

One of the problems that limits the amount of recycled PET (rPET) used in rigid packaging applications is the degree of yellowness that it can cause. The more rPET that is added to virgin PET during ...

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and the Association of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers (APR) have released their "Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity ...

A world without plastic is hard to imagine. Plastic has revolutionized how we protect, preserve and deliver food, beverages and essential consumer goods. Yet the term plastics covers a range of ...

New York City recycles plastic – or so I thought! For the last several years I have been carefully scrubbing all plastic number 1 (PET) and number 2 (HDPE) containers (such as most deli containers ...