PET recycling in North America proves resilient with efficiency gains and thermoform recovery surge despite market pressures ...

The 2024 report also documents significant improvements in the PET recycling system's efficiency. The ratio of total ...

The Recycling Partnership has launched its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) Recycling Coalition, an initiative informed by industry knowledge and expertise to improve PET circularity. Its work will ...

The Recycling Partnership’s initiative has awarded funds to two PET reclaimers and one MRF. The Recycling Partnership's PET Recycling Coalition has announced the first round of grant funding for ...

Addressing the global plastic waste crisis, particularly hard-to-recycle blended PET fibers, demands environmentally friendlier recycling methods. Researchers engineered a novel PET hydrolase PET2-21M ...

Chemical recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste represents a vital strategy to transform discarded plastic into high‐quality feedstocks, thereby fostering a circular economy and reducing ...

National Harbor, Md. — It's well understood in the recycling business that the flow of discarded PET bottles into clothing and carpeting is currently a one-way street. PET water and soda bottles can ...

COVID-19 impacts are disrupting domestic recycled PET supplies at a time when the market is clamoring for more of the material. PET bottle recycling slipped in 2020 to 26.6 percent in the United ...

Polyester plastics, commonly found in synthetic textiles and plastic components of home appliances, are notoriously difficult to recycle. In a study recently published in the Proceedings of the ...

As a result of its low permeability to moisture and gas, good mechanical properties, and high heat resistance, poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is used extensively ...

MUSCAT, DEC 23In a significant boost for efforts to recycle PET plastics — currently estimated to account for roughly half of all plastic ...