The Conversation reports on single-stream recycling, emphasizing its convenience but noting significant contamination issues ...

Knowing your symbols makes it easier to reuse and recycle. Groups 1, 2, and 5 are easy to recycle curbside, but groups 4, 6, ...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a key material in bottles, packaging, and clothing fibers, is notoriously difficult to ...

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 ...

A nationwide effort launched to increase the amount of PET recycled has distributed more than $5 million in two years, resulting in 29 million additional pounds of the resin reprocessed annually. The ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...