PET bottles have one of the highest recycling rates in the industry, although during reprocessing the polypropylene or polyethylene-based caps must be separated. Now a California company has created ...

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 ...

Addressing the global plastic waste crisis, particularly hard-to-recycle blended PET fibers, demands environmentally friendlier recycling methods. Researchers engineered a novel PET hydrolase PET2-21M ...

Germany-based recycling equipment and technology vendors Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim are collaborating with India-based preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer Pvt. Ltd. to build ...

“Mono-material” makes “100% recycled PET” possible from cap to bottle and improves recyclability because it is all one material, without the need for recyclers to separate caps from bottles WEST ...

Located in Gujarat, the facility is designed to process more than 1 billion postconsumer PET bottles per year.

COVID-19 impacts are disrupting domestic recycled PET supplies at a time when the market is clamoring for more of the material. PET bottle recycling slipped in 2020 to 26.6 percent in the United ...

The facility in Gujarat represents an investment of around Rs1.25bn ($13.7m).

In an industry first, food-grade PET plastic bottles produced entirely from enzymatically recycled plastic have been developed for brands Perrier, Orangina, and Pepsi Max. Globally, around 70 million ...