Have you ever dreamed of living in a delicious gingerbread house like the Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel"? In the near future, "edible houses" may not be a fairy tale anymore!
Kota Machida and Yuya Sakai, materials scientists at the University of Tokyo, have developed...
Recently, the Washington State Department of Ecology (DoE) submitted to the legislature a second alternatives assessment for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in food packaging. Materials such as polylactic acid coating and polylactic acid foam will replace paper (plant fiber...
On June 7, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology's manned submersible research vessel "Deep Sea 6500" lifted a new type of "biodegradable plastic" that was sunk in the deep waters of Sagami Bay about six months ago and is a light burden on the environment. ...
The U.S. government said June 8 it will phase out the sale of plastic water bottles and other single-use products in national parks and other public lands over the next decade, aiming to completely eradicate a major source of environmental pollution.
An order issued June 8 by U.S. Interior Secr...
UK-based sustainable packaging company Frugalpac has won its first customer for a paper bottle machine used to make Frugal bottles - the world's first and only commercial wine, spirits and olive oil bottles made from recycled paper.
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June 8 is the 14th World Oceans Day. The theme of this year's Ocean Day is "Protecting Marine Ecosystems, Harmonious Coexistence between People and Nature".
To protect marine ecosystems, we cannot get around the problem of marine plastic pollution. As a special product of human activi...
The materials industry is the basic industry of the national economy, and new materials are the precursor of the development of the materials industry. Graphene, carbon nanotubes, amorphous alloys, foam metals, ionic liquids ......20 new materials, bringing unlimited opportunities for the devel...
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a very common polymer used in everyday life, often as an outer packaging material for mineral water bottles, beverage bottles, fruit and salad packaging and various household appliances.
The amount of PET waste currently accounts for 12% of the total global w...
Recently Dutch sustainable chemicals company Relement raised €1 million in a seed round to expand its startup product bio MPA. the investment will also be used for pre-commercial trials with selected leading coating resin customers.
Relement, a subsidiary of the Netherlands Organization for App...
Last year the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released the report Assessment of Agricultural Plastics and Their Sustainability: A Call for Action, which presents the results of a global study of the different value chains in which This report presents the results of a study o...
