Blog categorized as 2023

OPPO launched 100% biodegradable cell phone packaging!

In 2023 from the European market, OPPO cell phone color box plastic packaging almost completely removed, to achieve 100% natural degradation of cell phone product packaging, and the use of 45% of recycled fiber material in the color box.

At the four-day MWC World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, which...

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06.03.23 01:40 AM - Comment(s)
European Environment Agency: Bio-based plastics are a pathway towards recycled plastics in Europe

In a recently published briefing paper, the European Environment Agency (EEA) noted that recycled materials (including bioplastics), smart use, and increased recycling are the three pathways toward recycled plastics in Europe.

The EEA explicitly mentions that the use of bio-based plastics helps red...

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06.03.23 01:36 AM - Comment(s)
Fiat dashboard, made of biomaterials

On February 27, four Italian companies jointly presented the results of Life Biobcomo's research at a conference in Naples, southern Italy, where the results were presented.

The four companies are SAPA Group (a company that produces injection-molded automotive components), Fiat Chrysler Automobiles...

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06.03.23 01:35 AM - Comment(s)
Inventory of the top 5 new bio-based environmentally friendly packaging materials, see what are they?

Plastic is one of the biggest contributors to marine pollution, and it accounts for more than 50% of the plastic waste problem. In the context of increasing environmental pollution, more and more people are putting hard work into the application of green and renewable materials. This article looks a...

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06.03.23 01:31 AM - Comment(s)
Low carbon and weight reduction, ASUS, realme, Casio and other major brands are using bio-based plastics

ASUS launched bio-based plastic material gaming mouse, weight and carbon reduction;

realme's new smartphone GT2Pro battery cover with SABIC's first bio-based polycarbonate (PC) copolymer.

Casio releases the first biomass plastic outdoor watch.

Recently, ASUS, a major laptop manufacturer, launched a...

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06.03.23 01:24 AM - Comment(s)
Why are PLA biodegradable materials becoming more and more popular?

Polylactic acid (PLA) is a new type of biodegradable material made from starch feedstock raised from renewable plant resources such as corn. Glucose is obtained by saccharification of starch raw material, then high purity lactic acid is made by fermentation of glucose and certain strains of bacteria...

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25.02.23 07:35 AM - Comment(s)
Save the elephants! Sri Lanka bans single-use plastics

The Sri Lankan government announced on Feb. 14 that it will ban the use of single-use plastic products. This follows a series of deaths of wild elephants and deer from plastic poisoning in the country.

Sri Lanka's cabinet spokesman and media minister Bandura Gunawardena said the country will ban th...

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25.02.23 07:33 AM - Comment(s)
Bangladesh: 90% reduction in single-use plastics by 2026

On Feb. 16, 2023, Md Shahab Uddin, the Bangladesh government's minister of environment, forests and climate change, said the government has taken steps to reduce single-use plastics by 90 percent by 2026.

"There are also plans to increase the recycling rate of plastic waste to 80 percent by 20...

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25.02.23 07:30 AM - Comment(s)
Study proves microplastics can be absorbed by cells and may be a potential cause of mental illness

1. Study proves microplastics can be absorbed by cells

Numerous studies have proven that microplastics have entered various tissues in the human body, including the lungs and blood. Recently, a team of scientists from the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Germany proved that cells cultured in...

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25.02.23 07:27 AM - Comment(s)
Plastic pollution has a social cost of more than $20 billion per year

In this day and age, plastics occupy an important position by virtue of their unique characteristics, and it can even be said that we are in the "age of plastics". The amount of municipal solid plastic waste produced by humans each year is equivalent to the weight of about 523 trillion pla...

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25.02.23 07:21 AM - Comment(s)