That is then sent over to the other building to be repolymerized, and voilà: You have pure recycled PET pellets, which can be shipped to a mill to be melted and extruded into polyester threads.

The report looks at how California and other states can improve PET thermoform circularity through innovation, policy alignment and industry commitments.

To be mechanically recycled, PET waste needs to be collected, sorted, and cleaned. It is then shredded into small flakes, which are melted and turned into small pellets, which can then be turned ...

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At the recycling facility, water and soda bottles made with PET are separated from the other plastics. Then, the PET plastic bottles pass through a machine that shreds them into flakes. These flakes ...

Numerous plastic waste classification and recycling stations, known as Little Blue Houses, dotting the 6,715-kilometer-long coastline of Zhejiang province in East China, are playing a pivotal role in ...