Treatment of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle wastes is one of the ways of utilizing solid household garbage accumulated in dumps worldwide, including in Russia. A large part of the utilized PET bottles in the form of washed flakes is processed into staple fibre for nonwoven materials and fillers. The German company BBE offered equipment and technology that allow conversion of PET flakes into a product akin to a standard primary polymer, which makes it possible to cast polyester textile filaments of the desired quality and thereby not only to expand the sales market, but also to solve important ecological and economic problems.
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Translated from Khimicheskie Volokna, No. 5, pp. 3-7, September-October, 2015.
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Aizenshtein, E.M. Bottle Wastes − to Textile Yarns. Fibre Chem 47, 343–347 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10692-016-9691-8
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