Doğa is using Starlinger PET beverage bottle-to-bottle recycling equipment at a facility in northwestern Turkey. The two installed Starlinger lines at DoğaPET have combined output capacity of 28,000 ...

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 ...

Atlanta — With a loudening chorus against single-use plastics, the PET bottle sector faces an uncertain future, Jon Larson believes. "I believe today, the PET bottle is at a crossroad. It's at a ...

Floyd Flexon, who runs recycling operations for bottle maker Amcor PET Packaging, said the current tough climate for PET recycling reminds of him of the dark days of early 1997. ``In 1997, you saw ...

Bottle deposits have ensured consistently high recycling rates for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles in Germany, according to a study commissioned by Forum PET within Bad Homburg, Germany-based ...

Label adhesives remain a barrier to closed-loop recycling of PET bottles, so material suppliers like Henkel are working on dispersible hot-melt formulations designed to separate cleanly during ...

Japanese people are great at recycling. According to the Council for PET Bottle Recycling of Japan, 593,000 tons of PET bottles were sold in 2019. 93% of them were collected and 85.8% were recycled.

Talking about going green has become a national pastime in recent years. Implementing energy-saving processes, using recycled materials, and reducing waste are often easier said than done. However, ...

In 2020, the University of Aveiro (UAveiro) applied for the Environment, Climate Change and Low Carbon Economy Program, promoted by the General Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Action, with ...

Evergreen Recycling, a PET bottle recycling plant in California, will lay off 57 employees as it moves to close a portion of its facility in Riverside. Evergreen, which describes itself as one of the ...