NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / September 3, 2025 / For decades, the world has struggled to balance the economics of plastic ...

A US nationwide bottle deposit program could increase recycling of PET plastic to 82 percent, with nearly two-thirds of all PET bottles being recycled into new bottles, at a net cost of just a ...

Recycling PET thermoforms has potential, but is facing a number of challenges, according to a three-person panel discussion Oct. 26 at the Society of Plastics Engineers Thermoforming Conference in ...

A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable ...

First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

Lightweight and shatterproof, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic is recyclable, although most items made from it don't get recycled. This is because reclaimed PET (rPET) just isn't as good ...

Plastics recycling in the UK could take a major step forward in part due to a research project announced today. The project will investigate processes for recycling post-consumer PET plastic bottles, ...

Chemists at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing the future of recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common type of plastic found in packaging and soda bottles. The method ...

Plastic water bottles can be “upcycled” into durable materials with properties equivalent to virgin polymer.

Circularix LLC is now recycling PET at the company's new site in Florida. The plastics recycling company said Aug. 27 ...

Recycling is an imperfect process. Not only does a huge percentage of plastic still crop up in landfills—the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the recycling rate for plastic ...