PET is also extruded into the film known as Mylar and is blow-molded into disposable beverage bottles.
Each gallery beyond holds a few rows of plastic beverage bottles suspended by twine from the overhead track lights.
This gives the material a stiffness and high dimensional stability under stress that are of great importance in beverage bottles and recording tape.
In this form, PET has become widely used in carbonated-beverage bottles and in jars for food processed at low temperatures.
The potential targets — you and me — have paid it with abandoned beverage bottles at check-in, stockinged feet at the X-ray machine, belts unbuckled, laptops unpacked.
PET is spun into fibres for permanent-press fabrics, blow-molded into disposable beverage bottles, and extruded into photographic film and magnetic recording tape.
Her father is a founder and the treasurer of Kortec, a maker of equipment for producing plastic beverage bottles in Ipswich, Mass.
Over all, Americans used 38.6 billion glass beverage containers, and 71.9 billion plastic beverage bottles in 2010, according to the Container Recycling Institute, an antiwaste organization based in Culver City, Calif., that tracks data on the topic.
A good new deposit bill could encourage recycling of new classes of beverage bottles and also provide financing for curbside programs that capture other kinds of recyclable waste, like juice cartons, ketchup bottles and mayonnaise jars.
One of Coke's new partners, Virent, a Wisconsin-based biofuel and chemical company partly owned by Cargill, Shell and Honda, said it hoped to have a large-scale plant to produce plastic for beverage bottles up and running in 2015.
