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

Plastic bottles are not only piling up in our landfills and oceans. Research shows they also shed invisible plastic particles that end up in our bodies. A new study found that a one-liter bottle of ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

Designed for integration into high-speed bottling lines with spray-coating units, the coating is suitable for PET, PP, and PC ...

Polyethylene terephthalate, otherwise known as PET, is as ubiquitous a material as it is unknown to most of the people who use it every day. PET is most widely used to produce single-use water and ...

I know, know: you’re reading my headline with horror and shock, clutching your vacuum-insulated water bottle, shuddering with rage that one would even dare suggest that plastic water bottles could be ...

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 ...

In Jiangxi, China, a teacher partnered with students to construct a rocket featuring two stages, each made from ordinary plastic bottles and launched using the pressure generated by water. The ...

Next time you grab a Diet Coke on the go, take a moment to look at the plastic bottle you have in your hand. The Coca-Cola Co. is rolling out three new bottle designs for Coca-Cola, Sprite, and brands ...