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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After opening New Zealand’s first PET plastic recycling plant in August, Flight Plastics has unloaded its 1,000th tonne of waste PET bottles and containers for processing. The PET plastic recycled by ...

I make an effort to reuse or repurpose plastic containers whenever I can. Not only is it better for the planet, but it’s an ...

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 ...