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

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 a significant leap forward for tackling the global plastic waste crisis, scientists in South Korea have developed a ...

Adidas uses plastic bottles that contain polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. And if it's something Adidas can't use, like caps and rings? Those get sent to normal recycling facilities. The ...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the clear plastic resin commonly used to make beverage bottles and food containers. Though made from hydrocarbons — naturally occurring compounds sourced from ...

The global recycled pet (rpet) market was valued at $8.4 billion in 2022, and is projected to reach $16.2 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 6.7% from 2023 to 2032. Growing concern about plastic ...

The plant aims to annually recycle 30,000 t of post-consumer PET – equivalent to around 1 bn bottles – collected via container deposit schemes and kerbside pick-up, and use food-grade rPET pellets as ...

While learning how to produce these kinds of bio-based plastics, the researchers also "stumbled on" a way to make traditional, petrochemical-based, single-use plastics much easier to recycle, ...