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Worldwide, eight million tonnes of plastic end up in the ocean every year, despite greater awareness of recycling and the use of disposable plastic. A Norwegian app will soon be able to identify where the...
Microbiologists at the University of Tübingen have modified bacteria to produce climate-neutral and rapidly degradable bioplastics. Cyanobacteria produce plastic naturally as a by-product of photosynthesis – and they do it in a sustainable and...
Online retail giant Amazon generated more than 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2019, according to a new report by Oceana. An analysis of e-commerce packaging data has found that Amazon generated...
Electronic tags released in the Ganges river show plastic pollution can travel thousands of kilometres in just a few months. The message-in-a-bottle tags could be used for raising awareness about plastic pollution. Researchers put...
Waste fishing gear in the River Ganges poses a threat to critically endangered wildlife including the three-striped roofed turtle and Ganges river dolphin, new research shows. Fishing nets – all made of plastic –...
Around 230,000 tonnes of plastic is dumped into the Mediterranean Sea every year. The figure could more than double in the next 20 years, says the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)...
When the air outside is polluted, office workers are more likely to order food delivery than go out for lunch, which in turn increases plastic waste from food packaging, according to a study by...
Almost 90 percent Nestlé’s food and beverage packaging, including two-thirds of its plastic packaging, is recyclable or reusable. Now the Swiss multinational is hoping to increase those numbers. “We have made strides in our...
A new INTERPOL report reveals increased illegal shipments and criminal activity across global plastic waste trade routes. WWF has issued a call for global cooperation to address the world’s plastic pollution crisis. The overwhelming...
Research has for the first time quantified the volume of plastic from European countries that contributes to ocean littering from exported recycling. Up to 31 per cent of plastic exported for recycling is not...
India-based Rhino Machines has developed a sustainable construction brick made entirely from foundry dust and plastic waste. Its ‘silica plastic blocks’ or SPBs can help meet the growing global need for urban using recycled...
In the United States, the per capita production of plastic waste is 340 grams per day. New research now estimates that more than 1,000 tons of microplastics are deposited onto protected lands in the...
A Swiss company is on its way to becoming the first company in the world to use a procedure to change mixed plastic waste into paraffin oil in a CO2-neutral way. This can also...
An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin layer covering just one square metre. Over 10 million...
Scientists have identified a microbe that can ingest polyurethrane – one of the most widely used oil-based plastics that is particularly hard to recycle or destroy safely. Scientists in Germany have identified and characterized...
Recycling is still the best way of handling plastic waste in the ocean, despite options to create plastic containers that easily degrade in sea water. These are the findings of a new study conducted...
A recent study finds that people could be ingesting approximately 5 grams of plastic every week on average, which is the equivalent weight of a credit card. The analysis No Plastic in Nature: Assessing...
Nestlé will invest up to $2 billion in an effort to replace virgin plastics with food-grade recycled plastics. Some of the money will be invested in start-ups developing new materials. Nestlé pledged two years...
The Co-op has announced that it will only use 100% recyclable packaging for its own brands, leading to what will become the largest-ever UK-wide scheme to recycle plastic film. The Co-op group is not...
A new study has found that London has higher levels of microplastics in the air than any other major city. Researchers from King’s College London carried out a study on microplastics in the atmosphere...
