The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has released a life cycle assessment (LCA) comparing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, glass ...

Düsseldorf, Germany — A Cyprus-based company, Cypet Technologies Ltd., is small in size, with only 40 employees. But its quest to take PET containers to new heights shows its aspirations and ...

I highly doubt a new life cycle assessment (LCA) showing that plastic bottles are less harmful to the environment than aluminum cans and glass bottles will change any minds in our tribal culture, but ...

One of the problems that limits the amount of recycled PET (rPET) used in rigid packaging applications is the degree of yellowness that it can cause. The more rPET that is added to virgin PET during ...

A world without plastic is hard to imagine. Plastic has revolutionized how we protect, preserve and deliver food, beverages and essential consumer goods. Yet the term plastics covers a range of ...

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 ...

New York City recycles plastic – or so I thought! For the last several years I have been carefully scrubbing all plastic number 1 (PET) and number 2 (HDPE) containers (such as most deli containers ...

If what goes up must eventually come down, then the plastics commodity market is no exception. Strong demand for polyethylene terephthalate and high density polyethylene plastics during the last year ...