Plastic pollution is the main determinant in controlling the deterioration of ecosystems, according to a study by Nature. In other words, to ensure greater sustainability of the planet, it is key to promote plastic recycling, for example, promoting growth in the production of reusable PET containers, which will help reverse…

Although plastic recycling in Spain has made great progress in recent years, there is still much room for improvement in the future. In global terms, recycling of household plastics has already exceeded 600,000 tons per year in the country, which means that each inhabitant recycles around 13 kilos of plastic…

Europe has set as one of its major challenges the implementation of a Circular Economy strategy that is truly committed to sustainability. This means, among other milestones, implementing measures and aids to extend the useful life of materials such as plastic. The main document to underpin this initiative was presented…

Although it may seem that plastic has always been present in the economy, its origin dates back to the end of the 19th century, although it was not until the first decade of the 20th century that Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, the first thermosetting plastic. Two decades later, the first…

At the end of September, the Ministry for Ecological Transition, and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) opened the draft Royal Decree on packaging and packaging waste for public information. This text aims to transpose the last of the pending Directives of the 2018 European Circular Economy package, applying the precepts of…

It is fully sustainable and recyclable. In fact, it is made from materials that have been recycled, mainly PET food packaging, and that have been thrown into their corresponding container. We are talking about rPET (technically called polyethylene terephthalate), a thermoformable material that, thanks to its usefulness and its very…