An example of successful waste management is the reprocessing of PET bottles (made of polyethylene terephthalate) into polyester fibers.

The product of the technology may just be a commodity such as the polyethylene plastic or a sophisticated product like the ICs used in a smartphone.

Regarding the exemption request by the United States for CFC 113 used for high modulus polyethylene fibre, he noted that it met the technical criteria for classification as a process agent.

It started in Japan. Sumitomo had developed a technology essentially to impregnate a polyethylene based fiber with organic insecticide, so you could create a bed net, a malaria bed net, that would last five years and not need to be re dipped.