Slide-top bottles in the study were by far the grossest, carrying some 933,000 colony forming units per square centimeter. Straw-bottles, however, carried a mere 25.4 units per square centimeter.

Custom preform and container maker DevTech PET Inc. is spending more than $18 million to establish a new location in Pennsylvania that will create 32 new jobs.

CarbonLITE says its recycled PET (rPET) can be made into new bottles in a closed-loop, bottle-to-bottle system. The company’s customers include Coca-Cola, Nestle Waters North America and PepsiCo. The ...

The flat-pack bottle, made from 100 per cent recycled PET plastic, ... Coles approached Packamama about getting the square bottle onto Australia shelves.