In relation to the plastics, chemical recycling breaks down PET’s long polymer chains into individual units called monomers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leipzig researchers have found an enzyme that rapidly breaks down PET, the most widely produced plastic in the world. It might just eat your old tote bags. https://p ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...