Fremont Elementary School students will tour Riverside plastic bottle recycling plant, create art with recycled plastic
November 11, 2013
Students from Fremont Elementary School in Riverside, CA, will celebrate America Recycles Day on Nov. 12 by touring CarbonLITE Recycling to see firsthand how plastic bottles are kept out of the waste stream.
NAPCOR and APR report highest domestic RPET production and end use to date
November 7, 2013
The total volume of postconsumer PET bottles collected was the highest reported to date at 1.718 billion pounds, as were both the total amount of RPET produced by U.S. reclaimers, 930 million pounds, and the amount used across major end-use domestic market segments at 1.3 billion pounds.
App designed to help users determine package impact on recycling stream
October 24, 2013
PTI has developed the PET Packaging Recycling Calculator app so that users can see how the material, barrier, additive, closure, labels, etc. decisions they make can potentially impact the next generation of PET.