MIDDLETON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) has released its 2022 PET Recycling Report. The report found that PET recycling rates held steady with ...

U.S. PET bottle recycling was at 29 percent for 2022, continuing what has now become a decadelong trend for that segment of the plastics recycling market. The National Association for PET Container ...

With PET thermoform recycling on the rise, the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) aims to sustain the momentum with its new white paper, “Increasing PET Thermoform Recycling." ...

PET is one of the most widely used plastics. In principle, PET molecules can be broken down into their basic building blocks using suitable enzymes. In practice, however, these approaches are ...

A Sept. 8 expansion of President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff regimen now includes imports of virgin and recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET), according to an executive order announcement.

Professor Kotohiro Nomura's research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed an efficient method for the exclusive depolymerization of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PET bottles and ...

Post-consumer PET container recycling in the United States rebounded in 2021 after taking a big hit the year before as the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns were in full force. New statistics released Dec.

French biotechnology pioneer Carbios has been given the green light to build the world’s first PET biorecycling plant in partnership with Indorama Ventures. The facility will be built on a 13.7 acre ...

Sometimes, all it takes to break the unbreakable is a good hit. Scientists have discovered a cleaner, faster way to recycle one of the world’s most stubborn plastics, not with heat or chemicals, but ...

A recent report from ICIS, a Houston-based commodities consulting company, claims demand for plastic scrap in the United States outweighed supply in 2023, resulting in the country becoming a net ...

Replacing multimaterial, coextruded lids is the aim of a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) lidding film supplied by Rollprint Packaging Products Inc. (Addison, IL). The processor reckons the new ...