by Sabrina Fitzgerald — Most people are familiar with the concept of a carbon footprint. Some may also know there is such a thing as a water footprint. But who has ever heard of a plastic footprint? Well, soon, more and more people will have.
by Christoph — "For beverage packaging the barrier properties [= very low permeability] of the PET to certain gases, the excellent mass to strength ratio and the recyclability of the final product are very important features influencing the choice of PET over other plastics or more traditional packaging materials." (quoted from the essentialchemicalindustry.org website). Given such attractive features, it's no wonder...
