polyethylene terephthalate Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:04:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 From plastic bottles to life-saving materials https://www.greenoptimistic.com/from-plastic-bottles-to-life-saving-materials-20190214/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/from-plastic-bottles-to-life-saving-materials-20190214/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:04:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67849 With plastic waste piling up, efforts are concentrated to reduce use of plastics and ban single use items. At the same time, new developments appear in the front of recycling existing waste. Researchers from the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology have developed a procedure to convert polyethylene terephthalate (PET) […]

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