Plastic is one of the most versatile and useful materials ever created but it comes with two big issues: where it comes from and where it ends up. Every year, around 350 million tons of virgin ...

This involved closely studying a range of PET plastic products, including containers, water bottles and fabrics, and then using the model to design and engineer a new and improved enzyme dubbed ...

It plans to license the tech to PET producers, which can plug it into their existing plants that make plastic from oil. As Carbios scales up, the team expects that the cost of the technology will ...

BOTTLE Consortium effort develops model that finds sizeable energy and carbon-saving benefits for recycling PET, a common plastic used in bottles, clothing, carpet.

While PET recycling is possible, "existing processes create products that continue to contribute to plastic pollution worldwide." This research could be the solution to the pollution.

Austria-based plastic packaging and recycling firm Alpla Group has announced a strategic partnership with South Africa-based Re-Purpose the companies say will boost polyethylene terephthalate (PET) ...

The result: Less than one-third of all PET plastic in the U.S. comes close to being recycled (other types of plastic lag even farther behind). Even then, methods like melting plastic waste or ...

According to NAPCOR’s annual report, less than 30 percent of PET plastic bottles were recycled in the United States in 2022, a rate that has remained largely unchanged for the past decade.