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 ...

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 ...

The synthetic metabolic process they designed converts nearly 100% of PET-derived substrates into the world’s most commonly used painkiller, acetaminophen, also called paracetamol in many parts ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...