Avainsana: plastics

The world’s plastic pollution problem is vastly outpacing efforts to stop it, meaning that the volume of plastics in oceans globally will be four times…

A Germany-based association known as Die Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) has endorsed a European Union tax or fee on the “non-recycled plastic waste” disposed of by…

Microplastics and synthetic microfibres from clothing have been found for the first time in the guts of sharks that live off the UK coast. Scientists…

The new commitment will see 2.2 billion pieces of plastic removed from the supermarket’s product lines over the next five years, most of which will…

We have previously spoken about the potential green opportunities presented by this unprecedented crisis. As the world literally closed down earlier this year, global carbon…

Specialty plastics provider Eastman, Kingsport, Tennessee, has introduced Tritan Renew copolyester, which contains up to 50 percent recycled content derived from the company’s Advanced Circular…

McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and Procter & Gamble (P&G) collectively source 4.3 million metric tonnes of plastic annually, of which just 8% comes…

A group of trade associations and Greenpeace has called on the (UK) government to implement a total ban on so-called oxo-degradable plastics. Oxo-degradable material is…

The innovative R&D project Circ-Pack has successfully developed solutions covering the full plastics value chain. Industry partners from over 22 European countries say their work…

The gruesome images of whales and deer dying after mistaking plastic for food has helped put into perspective just how severe the plastic waste crisis…