There is an astonishing amount of oil-derived plastic in existence, and it’s not going anywhere on its own. Researchers ...

Made from PET plastic, it is prized for its durability, lightness, and low cost of production. While these characteristics make it ideal for various uses across the textile industry, the ...

In Ghana, plastic waste is an escalating issue, with two types of plastics dominating the problem: PET (polyethylene ...

You use already existing plastic to make the new material, so you don’t need to get coal and petroleum from the earth. Plastic water and soda bottles often contain a chemical called polyethylene ...

PET, the strong plastic commonly used in bottles, takes hundreds of years to break down in the environment. The modified enzyme, known as PETase, can start breaking down the same material in just ...

According to NAPCOR’s ‘2023 PET Recycling Report,’ the U.S. PET bottle recycling rate increased 4% from 2022 and is the ...

If you know that most soda bottles are made from PET plastic, you’ve probably ... He pushes the plastic through and uses a printer heat break to tie it to a string and a little machine pulls ...