Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, and 7 are more difficult.

A nationwide effort launched to increase the amount of PET recycled has distributed more than $5 million in two years, resulting in 29 million additional pounds of the resin reprocessed annually. The ...

A Sept. 8 expansion of President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff regimen now includes imports of virgin and recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET), according to an executive order announcement.

Post-consumer PET container recycling in the United States rebounded in 2021 after taking a big hit the year before as the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns were in full force. New statistics released Dec.

PET is one of the most widely used plastics. In principle, PET molecules can be broken down into their basic building blocks using suitable enzymes. In practice, however, these approaches are ...

Sometimes, all it takes to break the unbreakable is a good hit. Scientists have discovered a cleaner, faster way to recycle one of the world’s most stubborn plastics, not with heat or chemicals, but ...

French biotechnology pioneer Carbios has been given the green light to build the world’s first PET biorecycling plant in partnership with Indorama Ventures. The facility will be built on a 13.7 acre ...

Replacing multimaterial, coextruded lids is the aim of a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) lidding film supplied by Rollprint Packaging Products Inc. (Addison, IL). The processor reckons the new ...

French startup Carbios just opened a demonstration plant—and hopes to expand the world’s menu of recycling options. Plastic is an environmental scourge, and most isn't recycled. Enzymes, nature’s ...