You can tell whether a piece of consumer plastic is PET by looking for a number “1” stamped inside the universal recycling symbol. The number you see in the symbol stands for the type of plastic used ...

The brain samples contained 7 to 30 times more tiny shards of plastic than ... terephthalate (PET) plastics, are the biggest contributor to the release of the solvent 1,4-dioxane into the ...

This method of exclusive chemical recycling of PET from plastic wastes offers a promising ... Chemical Recycle.” [1]A “Depolymerization of polyesters by transesterification with ethanol ...

Bacteria that can degrade the common plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) have been discovered in industrial waste water 1. The research, published in the journal Microbiology, offers insight ...

making it impossible to return the materials to the food packaging chain), such as PET (polyethylene terephthalate, type 1 plastic), while others, especially flexible and multilayer packaging ...

A new PET (polyethylene terephthalate) processing facility, which can accommodate more plastic waste and is the ...

The same thing applies to pet food or kibble, especially if you’re tempted to empty the contents of a bag straight into a ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER STACKPOLE, LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES After we’d steamed along for a while, Thompson reeled the manta trawl back in. There was a smattering of colored plastic ...

Indorama Ventures is forming a joint venture with the Indian Pepsi bottler Varun Beverages to establish several polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling plants. The firms are already building two ...

INDOS.OR LISA: PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE ... such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics, are the biggest contributor to the release of the solvent 1,4-dioxane into the environment, according ...