Current methods to recycle plastics often use expensive catalysts, harsh conditions and produce toxic byproducts. New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled ...

Prices for recycled PET pellets have decreased in North America due to seasonal demand. According to market sources in discussion with Plastics News, prices for clear post-consumer PET pellets have ...

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 ...

For years, recycled plastic claims have been shrouded in secrecy, difficult to verify, and often challenged as misleading.

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...

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.) ...

The global producer and recycler of PET plastic says its efforts have helped 150 billion PET bottles enter the recycling stream. With more than 20 recycling facilities in 11 countries, some entailing ...

Recycled polyester activewear and swimwear are now everywhere. Major global brands sell leggings, swimsuits and puffer ...

Conflict in Iran has raised the cost of oil and downstream products like virgin plastic. That's a boon for recycled plastic, ...

New process converts PET plastic into monomer building blocks, which can be recycled into new PET products or upcycled into higher value materials. Harnessing moisture from air, Northwestern ...