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Single-Use Plastic Makes up the Majority of Trash Identified for Three Years in a Row, Underscoring Urgent Need for Solutions. The 5 Gyres Institute published results from its annual Plastic-Free …
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Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master HOUSTON – Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide. What …
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By Prachi Patel Researchers create plastics that are stiff or rubbery, and performed as well, or better, than commonly available plastics. Starting with sugars, researchers have made sustainable plastics that perform …
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By Mark L. Friedman Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it’ll eventually crumble into a powdery mess, its petrochemical fragments destined to be blown far and …
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University of Missouri engineers are working with Dow and the Missouri Department of Transportation to test the use of plastic waste in road pavement mixtures. Each year in the United …
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Single-use plastic has been cancelled, and it’s about time the beauty industry took proper notice. As part of Zero-Waste Week, Uswitch has analysed 50 of the UK’s most popular make-up …
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Sustainability across the entire value chain — rather than advances in technology alone — is required to solve the United States’ plastic waste problems, according to a new brief from Rice University’s …
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By the University of Arizona Discussions of the growing plastic waste problem often focus on reducing the volume of single-use plastic packaging items such as bags, bottles, tubs and films. …
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By Heather A. Wright, Scientist The Global Plastic Problem – We’re global citizens of this planet. We and our stuff move around the planet and permeate the environment. Geologists term this …
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By Kevin Majoros Banner photo above by Floris Kok All over the world, creative conservationists are repurposing plastics into items that can be used daily. Everything from apparel to household …
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