Is it possible to recover plastic recyclates from previously unused waste streams in order to produce high-quality fibers and ...

A discovery led by the University of St Andrews has found a way to turn ordinary household plastic waste into the building block for anti-cancer drugs. Household PET (polyethylene terephthalate) waste ...

Several new projects turn waste into food for microbes that create PHA, a type of plastic that fully decomposes on its own, offering a less costly alternative to current bioplastics. This fork made of ...

rPlanet Earth, a vertically integrated polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycler that also manufactures various types of packaging from that material, has closed, according to industry sources.

The White House has announced that imports of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and recycled PET (rPET) will be subject to full tariffs, effective Sept. 8, 2025, S&P Global reported yesterday. The ...

State Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Synthesis and Conversion, College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, P. R. China Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Surface and ...

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have engineered a strain of Escherichia coli that relies on small molecules from waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles to survive. The ...

Bio-PE is derived from biological sources like sugarcane instead of petroleum. The manufacturing process begins with extracting ethanol from sugarcane, which is then dehydrated to produce ethylene, ...