In January 2023, the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) announced the 2022 WorldStar Packaging Awards (WPSA). In 2022, a total of 488 packaging proposals from 41 countries and regions were selected, and 228 proposals won.
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These chocolate ladybugs used to be packaged with PET...
The large accumulation of organic waste from communities or restaurants can be a source of other bio-based products and high quality secondary raw materials. Recently, a project called WaysTUP has been dedicated to these materials and their possible further uses.
One of the first results is a bio-ba...
The production of bio-based chemicals with sustainable raw materials and environmental friendliness has become an important way to get rid of energy dependence and move towards bio-economy in the future, which has received high attention from international policy, research and industrial circles.
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On March 22, 2023, a briefing was released on the official White House website reporting that the Biden Administration had announced a new "bold goal" and "priority" for advancing U.S. homegrown biotechnology and biomanufacturing.
The briefing on the White House website says the...
On Trindade Island, a three- to four-day sail from the Brazilian coast, geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos reportedly found a large amount of plastic forming the rock. Through analysis, she and her team identified the specimens as a new geological formation that fuses the materials and processes the E...
At present, the application of foam materials in the field of shoe materials is mainly EVA, TPU, etc., other foam materials are relatively cheap, the application accounts for a relatively small. Based on environmental sustainability, people are constantly looking for high-performance, low-energy, en...
American researchers have found that a class of anaerobic fungi in the stomachs of herbivores can degrade lignin, the hardest component of plants. The discovery will help develop new ways to produce biofuels or fine chemicals from lignin. The related paper was recently published in the British journ...
For the first time in seabirds, British and Australian researchers have discovered a new disease caused entirely by plastic. The British newspaper "The Guardian" reported on the 3rd citing researchers that this is the first time researchers have found plastic-induced fibrotic disease in wi...
On March 14, local time, researchers at University College London (UCL) published a paper in Frontiers in Sustainability in which they used machine learning to automatically classify different types of compostable, biodegradable plastics and distinguish them from conventional plastics.
"The ac...
According to French media reports, a new study shows that the impact of plastic waste pollution, as of 2019, the global ocean of about 170 trillion plastic particles, marine plastic pollution is becoming increasingly serious. The study, published in the international journal Public Library of Scienc...
