You see PET plastics every day, even if you do not notice them. They show up as drink bottles, food packaging, and synthetic fabrics. More than 80 million tons of PET, short for polyethylene ...

An estimate by environmental conservation nonprofit Oceana found that Coca-Cola's plastic use is projected to exceed 4.13 million metric tons (9.12 billion pounds ...

A single-use plastic water bottle floats in the waters of the Gili Islands, Indonesia. Plastic water bottles are mainly made from PET and have low recycling rates. Researchers at North Carolina State ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chemists at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing the future of recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common type of plastic found in ...