Plastic waste is a serious problem for the survival of all creatures on Earth. Recycling one solution to reduce negative impact environmental pollution caused by plastic waste. A lot that pollutes Earth comes from bottle (PET). There had been many studies discussed use (PET); however, this research used (PET) as geocell subgrade reinforcement. To date, still rare. The main purpose study was det...

Storage of water that was deliberately contaminated with enteric viruses in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles led to a rapid decrease of the apparent viral load, thereby hampering the development of samples for a collaborative evaluation of viral detection methods for bottled water. To determine if this decrease was due to spontaneous inactivation or to adhesion, an elution protocol was ...

Bottle water is getting very popular all through the world; especially in the gulf countries as the main source of drinking water. However, concerns over leaching of toxic chemicals are increasing. In this study, a health risk assessment was conducted in accordance with the guidelines indicated by United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). It is conducted based on leaching of Diethy...

Solar water disinfection (SODIS) is a simple, effective and inexpensive water treatment procedure suitable for application in developing countries. Microbially contaminated water is filled into transparent polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles and exposed to full sunlight for at least 6h. Solar radiation and elevated temperature destroy pathogenic germs efficiently. Recently, concern...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle recycling is a highly automated task; however, manual quality control required due to inefficiencies of the process. In this paper, we explore automation sub-task, namely visual detection, using convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods and synthetic generation labelled training data. We propose pipeline tailored for transparent crushed PET detecti...