At the end of August, Professional Pickleball Partners of Kansas City, Kansas, USA launched a Compost-a-Bal (compost ball). In recent years, a kind of pickleball has become popular in the U.S. Bill Gates is said to have been a veteran pickleball player for decades.
Pickleball, which also means ...
In a world awash with petroleum-based plastics, scientists are looking for alternatives that are more sustainable, more biodegradable and less toxic to the environment. Two new studies by biologists at Washington University (WashU) in St. Louis, USA, have found a purple bacteria that, with a little ...
Recently, FILA (Italian fashion sports brand) launched a “natural symbiosis T” T-shirt, each T-shirt using low-energy dyeing process and biodegradable materials. The main fabrics are all made of biodegradable fibers: 60% cotton + 40% CELYS™ polyester, and the woven labels, combinations of label...
On September 2, an AU$8 million (RMB 38.42 million) bioplastics innovation center was officially opened in Australia. The center is developing 100 percent compostable bioplastics from food waste such as cooking oil, including producing bioplastics that can decompose in compost, land or water. T...
On August 28, Denmark's LEGO, the world's most profitable toy company, announced its first-half 2024 financial results, with plans to have half of the plastic in its building block products by 2026 made from renewable or recycled materials. By 2032, LEGO aims to shift completely to renewable and rec...
At the end of August, California lawmakers passed two identical bills to ban all plastic shopping bags in California. The State Senate passed AB 2236 on the evening of August 28th and the State Assembly passed SB 1053 on August 29th.Both bills aim to completely ban grocers from offering any non-pape...
Recently, DOE's Bio-Optimized Technologies for Keeping Thermoplastics Out of Landfills and Out of the Environment (BOTTLE) scientists, including a team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Colorado State University, developed a series of PHAs with different properties, some of wh...
Currently, the advanced plastics recycling market is focused on technologies such as pyrolysis and depolymerization (thermal, chemical and enzymatic), with some exploring methods such as gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction. However, these technologies are facing increasing scrutiny and restri...
Researchers at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) are exploring the use of leftover 3D-printed PLA and carbon fiber scraps to develop recyclable composites.
Since the invention of plastics more than a century ago, consumption of plastics has been on the rise, generating polluting waste that p...
Recently, nova's team of experts updated its poster on biodegradable plastics, which also includes current standards and certifications as well as the latest scientific findings.
In order to improve the understanding of biodegradability and biodegradability and their certification, a group of e...
