Techstyle and agri-food innovation platform Mills Fabrica have released a new report detailing the role and impact of single-use plastic packaging in the fashion and food sectors. Rethink Packaging aims to provide guidance to brands seeking to solve this problem by considering the entire lifecy...
UK to introduce first-ever biodegradable plastics standard to stop jargon from misleading the public
Standards apply only to land-based plastic pollution
PAS 9017, entitled "Biodegradation of polyolefins in an open-air terrestrial environment," involves testing plastics to demonstrate ...
On April 27, Nature published a paper by Professor Hal Alper's team at the University of Texas at Austin on how modifying an enzyme with the help of machine learning could reduce the degradation time of plastics measured in centuries to 24 hours to a few days. The news has sparked concern becau...
Disposable masks pollution problem is more serious than plastic bags? An epidemic has made wearing a mask outside the home the norm, and to a certain extent, the mask has become our "protection god". But who would have thought that the crisis would follow.
These thin protective materi...
Packaging is everywhere. Most packaging consumes considerable resources and energy during production and transportation. Even to produce one ton of cardboard packaging, which many consumers see as "greener", requires at least 17 trees, 300 liters of oil, 26,500 liters of water and 46,000 k...
Body wash, face wash, shampoo ...... we use every day in the daily chemical products, but hidden microplastics? Recently, the Plastic Soup Foundation released its latest report, "Microplastics - The Hidden Ingredient in Everyday Products" (hereinafter referred to as the report), which anal...
On January 25, 2022, WWF released the report "Chemical Recycling Implementation Principles". The report states that only 9% of all plastic waste is recycled, and that the problem cannot be solved by recycling itself. In fact, due to technical and financial challenges, the Pew and Syst...
Recently, the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN) (hereinafter referred to as IPEN) published a series of studies that reveal the difficulties countries encounter in achieving a safe plastics recycling economy. Studies show that countries cannot safely deal with the constant and diver...
According to research commissioned by Lindum Packaging, one in five UK companies using plastic packaging have seen their costs increase by more than 75% as a result of the UK plastic packaging tax. The tax, which went into effect April 1, imposes a £200 ($247) per metric ton tax on companies t...
A recent new report from the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) says that the world is producing twice as much plastic as it did 20 years ago, much of which is being landfilled, incinerated or spilled into the environment. Growing populations and incomes are driving ...
