pet bottles Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:18:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 IBM and Stanford Discover Chemical Recycling of PETs at Low Temperatures https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chemical-recycle-pet-20100310/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chemical-recycle-pet-20100310/#respond Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:18:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6931 Usually, plastic bottles, (aka PETs) are recycled by mechanical technologies, and they get several other uses afterwards: carpets, sweaters, etc. They don't ever return to their original water bottle use.It is possible to chemically recycle PETs, but the method has been so far very expensive and the industry doesn't want that option.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chemical-recycle-pet-20100310/feed/ 0 6931 PET Bottles Used to Sustain Wind Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chris-allen-pet-bottles-wind-power-20090630/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chris-allen-pet-bottles-wind-power-20090630/#respond Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:47:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3867 Some people have realized that our interference with the planet's ecosystems is in most cases disastrous and have come with several ideas to diminish our influence on the environment. Industrial designer Chris Allen has come up with an idea to use plastic bottles that we usually throw away to help generate energy from wind.

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