Rice News: Treated Plastic Waste Good at Grabbing Carbon Dioxide
Rice University lab turns hard-to-process trash into carbon-capture master HOUSTON – Here’s another thing to do with that mountain of[…]
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Tag: plastic waste
Strong, Recyclable, & Degradable: New Sugar-Based Plastics Are a Sweet Deal
By Prachi Patel Researchers create plastics that are stiff or rubbery, and performed as well, or better, than commonly available plastics.[…]
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Sunlight Can Bake Plastic Waste Into a Soup of Tens of Thousands of Organic Molecules
By Mark L. Friedman Leave a cheap plastic bag in the sun long enough and it’ll eventually crumble into a[…]
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‘Driving’ Innovation to Help Eliminate Plastic Waste
University of Missouri engineers are working with Dow and the Missouri Department of Transportation to test the use of plastic[…]
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Zero-Waste Week: The Beauty Brands Reducing Their Plastic & 5 Ways To Be More Eco-Friendly
Single-use plastic has been cancelled, and it’s about time the beauty industry took proper notice. As part of Zero-Waste Week,[…]
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Advanced Recycling Strategies Needed to Clean Up Plastic Pollution Problem, Says Baker Institute, Expert
Sustainability across the entire value chain — rather than advances in technology alone — is required to solve the United[…]
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Plastics, waste, and recycling: It’s not just a packaging problem
By the University of Arizona Discussions of the growing plastic waste problem often focus on reducing the volume of single-use[…]
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The Global Plastic Problem: How you can make a difference
By Heather A. Wright, Scientist The Global Plastic Problem – We’re global citizens of this planet. We and our stuff move[…]
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Plastic Whale Creates Value from Plastic Waste
By Kevin Majoros Banner photo above by Floris Kok All over the world, creative conservationists are repurposing plastics into items[…]
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Jackson Groves and Journey Era Kick Off Adventure Bag
By Kevin Majoros Jackson Groves started his travel blog, Journey Era, two years ago and it has attracted a cult[…]
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