PET bottles have one of the highest recycling rates in the industry, although during reprocessing the polypropylene or polyethylene-based caps must be separated. Now a California company has created ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

Plastics recyclers and PET resin maker Indorama are part of a coalition urging Rhode Island to adopt a combination bottle bill and extended producer responsibility law, calling it the best shot at ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

HydraPak has expanded a successful pilot that redirects harder-to-recycle plastics toward potential reuse, but reaching viable scale remains a work in progress. In 2024, the company piloted its ‘RePak ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

The city of Houston is asking residents to leave plastic water bottles intact when placing them in recycling bins. According to city officials, crushed or flattened plastic bottles can confuse the ...

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 ...