Category: (Bio-) PET
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Clothes from PET Bottles is Greenwashing
Why making clothes from plastic bottles will not solve fashion’s waste crisis
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Lanzatech and Migros Partner on CO2 PET Bottle
LanzaTech leads the way in getting consumer goods from recycled carbon to market
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ALPLA Partners on PET Recycling in Romania
ALPLA, Ecohelp and UPT launch joint PET recycling operations in Romania
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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…
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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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Indorama Ventures PET Balans
The PET business for Indorama Ventures in 2020 and 2021
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Controlling Recycled PET Quality
How recycled PET product quality can be controlled?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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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.
