Professor Kotohiro Nomura's research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed an efficient method for the ...

Researchers in Tokyo Metropolitan University developed the efficient method for perfect and selective conversion of ...

The update at COP30 comes two years after the industry pledged to recycle at least 80% of these containers worldwide by 2030 and nearly all by 2050. The picture is weaker in the U.S. and North America ...

How smart policy, strategic investment, and shared action can unlock more recycled PET. By Kate Davenport For years, ...

U.S. PET bottle recycling was at 29 percent for 2022, continuing what has now become a decadelong trend for that segment of the plastics recycling market. The National Association for PET Container ...

PET bottle recycling shot up in 2023, resulting in the highest recycling rate in the United States in nearly 30 years. New statistics released by the National Association for PET Container Resources ...

Polyethylene terephthalate, otherwise known as PET, is as ubiquitous a material as it is unknown to most of the people who use it every day. PET is most widely used to produce single-use water and ...

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) has released its “2019 PET Recycling Report,” which cites a U.S. recycling rate of 27.9 percent for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) ...

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.