Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...

In relation to the plastics, chemical recycling breaks down PET’s long polymer chains into individual units called monomers ...

The method overcomes barriers of incomplete depolymerization and low product purity, promising a pathway toward true ...

Lightweight and shatterproof, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic is recyclable, although most items made from it don't get recycled. This is because reclaimed PET (rPET) just isn't as good as ...

Professor Kotohiro Nomura's research group at Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed an efficient method for the exclusive depolymerization of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), PET bottles and ...

CLERMONT-FERRAND, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The promise of endlessly recycled PET plastic is one step closer today, as the Consortium – Carbios, L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & ...

BP has developed what it describes as an “enhanced recycling technology,” BP Infinia, that enables currently unrecyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to be transformed back into new, ...

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Virgin and rPET bottles in Michigan and California leached additives and hazardous chemicals, per a study funded by the ...

Plastics can take hundreds of years to naturally degrade in the environment, something this new combination of enzymes can accomplish in a matter of days. Photo by Fachrul Reza/NurPhoto via Getty ...

This may be hard to swallow, but the drinking bottle that you are dutifully carrying around with you all day to stay properly hydrated may be delivering more than water into your body. The most ...

Scientists are thumbing their noses at responsible parents everywhere by putting cheap plastic in the microwave. Single-use polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic is being “reduced to flakes” before ...