Thermoforms have a bigger role, and multiple changes are afoot in the rPET landscape — tempering recycled content growth in ...

The organization says that while the 2024 U.S. PET recycling rate declined to 30.2 percent from the high of 32.5 percent ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) has announced it is initiating an industry-wide consultation to collect stakeholder ...

PetStar boosts recycling capacity to 86,000 tons annually with $143M expansion, processing 5.5 billion bottles in circular ...

From right: Kosuke Fujishima, Associate Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo University of Science; Masaki Maeda, Department Manager in charge of Open Innovation, Corporate Planning ...

Germany-based recycling equipment and technology vendors Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim are collaborating with India-based preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer Pvt. Ltd. to build ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...