Polyethylene

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PET Plastic Problem Photographs - Chris Jordan / Photographer 1jan2007

• Pepsi to Cut Plastic Used in Bottles: Too Bad For Municipalities Recycling Programs - Wall Street Journal 6may2008
• Plastic Wine: New Wine in ... Uh, Juice Boxes - Time Magazine 30aug2007
• Plastic Beverage Container Waste Soars - American Recycler 1apr2007
  • Water, Water Everywhere: The Growth of Non-Carbonated Beverages in the United States - Container Recycling Institute 1feb2007

• Plastic Bags Environmental Hazard in Islamabad - Islamabad News 6mar2005

• Schools Replace Milk Cartons With Plastic Bottles  -  AP 28dce04

• Reusable Bags Tackle Plastic Bag Mess - Vincent Cobb / O'Mama Report 21nov04

• Plastic Bottle Recycling on the Ropes - Container and Packaging Recycling UPDATE 7oct04

• An Alternative Agriculture System is Defined by a Distinct Expression Profile of Select Gene Transcripts and Proteins - V. Kumar et al / PNAS  20jul04

• Aseptic Packaging: Thinking Outside the Can: A Fresh Look at Food in a Box -  NY Times 14mar04

• Mexico's PET Peeve: Avalanche of plastic bottles is a national environmental curse -  SF Chronicle 17feb04

• Tupperware: It's humble, it's plastic, it burps. It's time to lift the lid on America's most colorful kitchen icon - SF Chronicle 7feb04

• PET Bottled Water Sales in the US 1997-2002 - Container and Packaging Recycling UPDATE Summer/Fall 2003

• Plastic Bottle Waste Tripled Since 1995: Group calls on Coke and Pepsi to stop attacking bottle bills -  Container Recycling Institute 15sep03

• 21 CFR § 177.1630  Polyethylene phthalate polymers  - Code of Federal Regulations rev. 1apr03

• Polyethylene Family - PET, LDPE, HDPE, MDPE, etc.

• FDA Accepts Aseptic HDPE Filling Technology - Press Release / Tetra Pak / PRNewswire 9dec02

• Development of a modified chemical inertness test method for refillable PET bottle material  -  Eur Food Res Technol 23jan02

• Toxicological evaluation of commercial mineral water bottled in polyethylene terephthalate: a cytogenetic approach with Allium cepa - Food Additives and Contaminants 1dec00

• Plastic Bags are Choking the Life out of India  - Greenpeace India 22oct00

• Polyethylene Terephthalate Migration and Toxicity - Indirect Food Additives and Polymers: Migration and Toxicology 2000

• HDPE - High-Density (low-pressure) Polyethylene -  Sheftel, VO.  Indirect Food Additives and Polymers: Migration and Toxicology 2000

• Macrophage Phagocytosis of Polyethylene Particulate in Vitro - (abstract) Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Jan98

• Migration of Acetaldehyde from PET bottles into soft drinks containing carbonic acid. - Z. Lebensm. Forsch 1990