The flakes are heated, dried, and cooled, then cut into small resin pellets. Normally, polyester is made from petroleum. But Adidas melts these pellets to create a filament, which is spun into ...

Here’s how recycled polyester is made. At the recycling facility, water and soda bottles made with PET are separated from the other plastics. Then, the PET plastic bottles pass through a machine that ...

Utilizing a 'broad spectrum' of PET and polyester feedstock, DePoly and Plastic Technologies Inc. have produced a 'closed-loop' recycled PET bottle suitable for food contact and long-term storage.

DePoly says its technology has broken down the PET and polyester into their raw monomers, or purified terephthalic acid (PTA), and turned it into PET pellets that are then blown into rPET bottles ...