Tag: pet
America’s Beverage Industry Celebrates One Year of Every Bottle Back
The first year of a breakthrough effort by America’s leading beverage companies to boost the recycling of plastic bottles saw the initiation of modernization…
Pressure mounts on EU member states to meet plastic recycling goals
Currently, there is great disparity between member states, with some, like Germany and Denmark, already surpassing the target set out in the single use plastics…
Coca-Cola European Partners Invests in CuRE to Recycle PET
Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is continuing its work to drive a closed-loop system, most recently investing in an up-and-coming technology to turn mountains of waste…
High hopes for PET recycling in South Africa – despite lost capacity
In 2019, not less than 62% of all plastic bottles produced in South Africa were collected for recycling – 2% down from 2018, according to…
Coca-Cola European bottler commits to PET recycling
United Kingdom-based Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), which calls itself the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, says it will provide funding to startup company CuRe Technology,…
Lack of tourism shifts PET, rPET landscape in Europe
The near total collapse of the tourism, lodging and air travel sectors in Europe in 2020 resulting from COVID-19 and subsequent measures has changed how…
IIT researchers develop technology for making high efficiency masks from waste plastic bottles
Researchers at IIT Mandi claim to have developed a technology for making high efficiency masks using waste pet bottles that are not only more breathable…
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