Category "Waste"

States are rolling back their plastic bag bans and restaurants are turning to single-use utensils to reopen in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Comparing the main bag choices—plastic, paper and cotton—in order to try to answer that question, what's environmentally responsible.

National Geographic recently convened a group that included CEOs, city officials, and recycling experts to talk about how we can bring the circular economy from concept to reality.

Plastik mithilfe von Enzymen zerlegen und die Bausteine Bakterien schmackhaft machen, damit sie daraus Wertstoffe erzeugen. Ein europäischer Forscherverbund hat ein Konzept für ein biotechnisches Kunststoff-Upcycling entwickelt.

Canadian-based company Genecisdeveloped biological processes that convert food waste, otherwise destined for the landfill, into biodegradable plastics.

Dutch company Plasticiet produced recycled plastic sheet material with a marbled, or pearlescent look, which they used to make a series of furniture.

For the first time patches of floating macroplastics are detectable in optical data acquired by the European Space Agency Sentinel-2 satellites.

Veronika Bátori, a researcher from Sweden, developed bioplastic materials derived from fruit waste with promising properties.

Ein zunehmendes Umweltbewusstsein seitens der Verbraucher führt zu der Erkenntnis, dass die Verpackungsindustrie langfristig nicht als lineares Modell weitergeführt werden kann.

It turns out that 75% of jars sold worldwide use the same size lid. For designer Jorre van Ast this simple fact inspired the clever Jar Tops.