With the world’s largest bottle-to-bottle recycling plant opening in Riverside, California last month, we decided to follow the life of a PET bottle from the shelf in the supermarket to its life as a new plastic product. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common plastics on the market. It is the type of [...] Read more »
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With plastic products making up around 20% of the material found in solid waste recycling streams nationwide, it is one of the most commonly recycled materials, especially among residential recyclers. Items such as discarded bags, bottles and packaging material finds its way from the solid waste stream back on to the market every day. The [...] Read more »