An Accra-based manufacturing company, the Mohinani Group, has signed a $37 million loan agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to undertake the recycling of Polyethylene Terephthal ...

Bacteria that can degrade the common plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) have been discovered in industrial waste water 1. The research, published in the journal Microbiology, offers insight ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis ... for example, or PET—instead of working only with polymers that ...

our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics. Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of ...