Category: (Bio-) PET
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Chinese Manage to Upgrade PET Waste
Electrocatalytic upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate to commodity chemicals and H2 fuel
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Waddington Europe to Boost rPET in Ireland
Waddington Europe Starts to Localize ‘Closed Loop’ Packaging in Ireland
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Coke and Asahi Partner on rPET Plant
New PET recycling facility to be built by industry partnership
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PET Industry New Promotional Website
Is PET winning the Communication battle? PET is more sustainable than aluminium, glass and paper packaging according to the latest campaign
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World First Enzymatically Recycled Bottles
Global Consumer Brands Unveil World’s First Enzymatically Recycled Bottles
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Lego Goes rPET
The LEGO Group reveals first prototype LEGO® brick made from recycled plastic
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FrieslandCampina Goes rPET
FrieslandCampina launches an exclusivity: it is the first Belgian dairy company to produce 100% rPET bottles
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Converting PET Waste into Vanillin
Microbial synthesis of vanillin from waste poly(ethylene terephthalate)
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Alpek Acquires CarbonLITE rPET Plant
Alpek acquires CarbonLITE’s state-of-the-art rPET facility
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KAO Goes Chemically Recycled PET Cosmetic Packaging
Kao Aims for Material Recycling of Plastic Bottles for Cosmetics, Begins Using Chemically Recycled PET Material
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Perfecting the Performance of PET (FREE)
Incorporating isosorbide to develop eco-friendly polyesters with exciting potential for hot fill and cosmetic packaging. This is a FREE article.
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Japan Goes PET Chemical Recycling
New partnership in Japan will recycle PET bottles chemically
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Plastic Degradation in Marine Environment
Biodegradation of Synthetic Plastic in the Marine Habitat
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Sabic Converts PET in PBT (FREE)
Over 100 Million Pet Bottles Are Upcycled Into Sabic’s Lnp™ Elcrin™ Iq Products Contributing To Net Zero Carbon Goals.
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Nestle Waters France Goes rPET
Nestlé Waters France launches new 100% recycled plastic bottle formats for its brands VITTEL®, HEPAR® and CONTREX®
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ALPLA and Biffa Partner on rPET
Cooperation with British waste management company Biffa will boost local circular economy
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Amcor rPET Milk Bottles in Argentina
Delivering fresh milk in the first post-consumer recycled PET bottles in Argentina
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2025 Recycled Polyester Challenge
Textile Exchange and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action are launching a joint initiative to further spur a shift in the market towards the uptake of recycled polyester (rPET) and the associated reduction in greenhouse gases (GHGs)
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EU Soft Drinks Industry Circular Packaging Targets
EU beverage packaging aims to be fully circular by 2030 The European soft drinks industry’s Circular Packaging Vision 2030:
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Australia Builds Largest PET Recycling Plant
Australia’s largest PET recycling plant now under construction in Albury-Wodonga Construction is now underway on a world-class recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga that will see the equivalent of around 1 billion PET plastic bottles recycled each year.
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Coke Goes rPET in US
Coca-Cola Trademark brands (Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Flavors) will debut a 13.2-oz. bottle made from 100% recycled PET (rPET) plastic this month in California, Florida and select states in the Northeast, with other sparkling beverage brands following this summer.
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ALPLA Invests in rPET in Italy
Construction of an extrusion system in Anagni for 15,000 tonnes of rPET a year
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FrieslandCampina Goes 100% rPET Bottles
FrieslandCampina switches to 100% recycled PET bottles
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Italy Goes 100% rPET Food Packaging
Bottles in 100% recycled Pet, final green light with the 2021 Budget Law
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US PET Recycling Report 2019
napcor releases 2019 pet recycling report: rpet content in bottles and containers grow
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Pepsi Goes rPET
PepsiCo Commits to 100% Recycled Plastic Beverage Bottles for its Pepsi Brand in 9 EU Markets By 2022
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rPET Milk Bottles
ALPLA and NÖM setting new benchmarks in environmentally friendly packaging for milk products.
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A New Packaging Solution for Aerosols (FREE)
Break free of the design and performance constraints of aluminium and steel. Next generation plastics can provide the perfect solution for personal care and household products.
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LCA Virgin PET vs rPET
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) found the environmental impacts of producing recycled PET are significantly less than producing virgin PET.
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Breitling Goes rPET
Breitling is introducing a foldable, reusable watch box created entirely from upcycled plastic bottles.
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Update on PCR and rPET in US
Increased attention to recycling over the past decade has been positive for the industry, but greater collaboration is needed for further advancement
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Britvic Goes rPET
Britvic announces move to 100% recycled plastic bottles in great britain by the end of 2022
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Worlds First Carbon Neutral rPET
Production using green electricity and offsetting of unavoidable emissions with carbon certificates
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Green Sustainable p-Xylene
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam have developed a green and sustainable approach for selective p-xylene synthesis.
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Evian Goes rPET
Bottles, made from bottles: a key milestone in our sustainability journey to becoming a fully circular brand by 2025.
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Nestle and Biffa Partner on rPET
Biffa and Nestlé Waters UK partner to deliver 100% rPET made from British recycled plastic
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New Partnership for PET Chemical Recycling
Axens, IFPEN and JEPLAN join their forces to demonstrate and commercialize an innovative process for the recycling of all types of waste PET
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PET Communications Campaign in Europe
The PET Industry in Europe will start a communications campaign soon.
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Will Coke PET Recycling Become a Fiasco in the Philippines?
Activists say the facility, a joint venture between the beverage giant and Thai packaging firm Indorama Ventures, would still require virgin feedstock derived from fossil fuels. They also took issue with the companies’ claim that PET bottles are not single-use packaging.
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Inline Plastics Goes rPET
Inline Plastics, Shelton, Conn., is integrating rDPET into its products, using post-consumer content from recycled products.
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Survey to Develop PET Chemical Recycling
How can textile producers and processors avoid PET waste or treat it as profitably as possible? The DEMETO project, supported by the European Outdoor Group, is dedicated to this question. Textile and recycling experts can now provide valuable input in the “DEMETO 2020 Survey – End of Life Strategy”.
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FDA Approves Full Recycled HDPE and PET Food Packaging
Erema Group got the go-ahead to use its technology to recycle HDPE into food and drink packaging and foodservice wares. Meanwhile, other companies got federal green lights for PET recycling.
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ALPLA Reduces Carbon Footprint of rPET
PET pellets from post-consumer drink bottles provided by PET Recycling Team GmbH, a subsidiary of ALPLA, result in greenhouse gas emissions that are only a tenth of the level for new material.
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Novozymes and Carbios Partner on Industrial Scale PET Degrading Enzymes
The global agreement is an exclusive partnership for scaling up and producing PET-degrading enzymes. The JDA leads way toward circular economy.
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Coca-Cola Switches to Recycled PET Bottles in Sweden
Drinks group Coca-Cola (KO.N) said on Tuesday it would start using PET bottles in Sweden made only of recycled plastic in a first step towards expanding its use of recycled plastic in western Europe.
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Unilever Goes Recycled Plastics
Viridor and Unilever have agreed a new contract which will see Unilever receive of a range of recycled plastic from Viridor’s £65m Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre near Bristol.
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LVF Plans to Breakdown Plastic Waste with Biodegradable PET
Leeds-based LVF has become one of the first packaging companies in the UK to manufacture and sell products made from BreakdownPET, a biodegradable and fully recyclable plastic material that is designed to quickly, naturally, and safely decompose in landfill.
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UK First 100% Recycled Water Bottle
Scottish beverage company, Highland Spring, is the first UK bottled water brand to use a 100% recycled bottle.
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PEF Integrated in EU PET recycling
This is big news coming from Synvina (the JV between Avantium and BASF) as the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) – a voluntary initiative of industry organizations representing waste collectors, plastic recyclers, PET material producers and brand owners, gave an interim approval for the recyclability of polyethylene furanoate (PEF).
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Bio-Based PET
RENMATIX (Atlanta) and VIRENT (Madison Wisconsin) have signed a partnership to develop a fully bio-based PET bottle for Coca Cola.
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