The future of polyethylene terephthalate bottles: Challenges and sustainability

Natural depolymerization of waste poly(ethylene terephthalate) by neutral hydrolysis in marine water

(2021) Dorin Stanica-Ezeanu et al.   Scientific Reports

Beverage bottle capacity, packaging efficiency, and the potential for plastic waste reduction

(2021) R. Becerril-Arreola et al.   Scientific Reports

The seasonal distribution characteristics of microplastics on bathing beaches along the coast of Qingdao, China

(2021) Fenglei Gao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles

(2020) V. Tournier et al.   NATURE

Effect of recycled content and rPET quality on the properties of PET bottles, part III: Modelling of repetitive recycling

(2020) Marieke T. Brouwer et al.   PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in the packaging industry

(2020) Roberto Nisticò   POLYMER TESTING

Plastic or glass: a new environmental assessment with a marine litter indicator for the comparison of pasteurized milk bottles

(2020) Roberta Stefanini et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

Plastic packaging goes sustainable: An analysis of consumer preferences for plastic water bottles

(2020) Elisa De Marchi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Current knowledge on enzymatic PET degradation and its possible application to waste stream management and other fields

(2019) Fusako Kawai et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Turning ocean garbage into products – Consumers’ evaluations of products made of recycled ocean plastic

(2019) Lise Magnier et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Life cycle assessment of carrier bags and development of a littering indicator

(2019) Didem Civancik-Uslu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Oxygen scavenging films in food packaging

(2018) Kirtiraj K. Gaikwad et al.   Environmental Chemistry Letters

Contaminated Interaction: Another Barrier to Circular Material Flows

(2017) Weston Baxter et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

How consumers of plastic water bottles are responding to environmental policies?

(2017) Caroline Orset et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Microbial enzymes for the recycling of recalcitrant petroleum-based plastics: how far are we?

(2017) Ren Wei et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Life cycle impact assessment of beverage packaging systems: focus on the collection of post-consumer bottles

(2016) Bálint Simon et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

The degradation potential of PET bottles in the marine environment: An ATR-FTIR based approach

(2016) C. Ioakeimidis et al.   Scientific Reports

Recent Progress in Gas Barrier Thin Film Coatings on PET Bottles in Food and Beverage Applications

(2015) Masaki Nakaya et al.   Coatings

The consumption and recycling collection system of PET bottles: A case study of Beijing, China

(2013) Hua Zhang et al.   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Ultrasonic Sealing of Flexible Packaging Films - Principle and Characteristics of an Alternative Sealing Method

(2011) Sascha Bach et al.   PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE

Twenty years of PET bottle to bottle recycling—An overview

(2011) Frank Welle   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Assessment of metal contaminations leaching out from recycling plastic bottles upon treatments

(2010) Xiaoliang Cheng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Migration of antimony from PET bottles into beverages: determination of the activation energy of diffusion and migration modelling compared with literature data

(2010) F. Welle et al.   Food Additives and Contaminants Part A-Chemistry Analysis Control Exposure & Risk Assessment

Life-cycle assessment of domestic and transboundary recycling of post-consumer PET bottles

(2010) Jun Nakatani et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT