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New bottle plastic is okay in Europe

by Michael McCoy
May 29, 2017 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 95, Issue 22

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Credit: Synvina
Synvina plans a 50,000-metric-ton-per-year plant to make furandicarboxylic acid for beverage bottles.
A photo of empty plastic beverage bottles.
Credit: Synvina
Synvina plans a 50,000-metric-ton-per-year plant to make furandicarboxylic acid for beverage bottles.

A European polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle industry group has given interim approval to bottles made out of polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a polymer being developed by Synvina, a joint venture of BASF and Avantium. Whereas PET is made with purified terephthalic acid, a petrochemical, PEF is made with furandicarboxylic acid, which is derived from renewable resources. The industry group concluded that PEF bottles can be recycled alongside PET bottles.

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