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The pandemic has undoubtedly caused world-wide disruption in every sector, one of which is the Circular Economy where numerous sustainability initiatives have slowed down or ground to a halt. One area that has expanded, however, is Polypropylene (PP) single-use containers as global take-away food demand has soared.
The circular economy is a term that is increasingly being rolled out by organisations around the world to define how they are taking everything from climate change to waste management seriously. We are, however, way past the point of bold statements and definitions. Transformational actions are urgently needed.
Better design for electronics recycling will minimise the use of hazardous materials and introduce more sustainability into the electronics industry.
America is in a period of transition to an economy increasingly focused on renewable supplies and products with less social and environmental impacts.
This familiar children’s song tells of two characters, Henry and Liza, trying unsuccessfully to fix a hole in his leaky bucket.
The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge Fund (SSPP) was established to support investment in research and innovation in plastic packaging to help the UK achieve the very stretching Plastic Pact targets.
At the recent inaugural virtual Global Research Innovation in Plastics Sustainability conference, Physical Chemistry Professor Tony Ryan, OBE, from the University of Sheffield,
offered an alternative take on the practice of landfilling.
Albert Einstein famously said that ‘We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.’
But still not good enough, says Anindya Mukherjee, a founding member of Go!PHA, the non-profit initiative created to accelerate the development of the PHA-platform industry.
The use of plastic is vital in our everyday lives. Yet most plastic is based on non-renewable fossil-based resources, which is not a sustainable situation. How can plastics become more sustainable?
California has leapt ahead of the EU in plastic bottling recycling policy by introducing the most stringent recycling requirements globally. It's a critical step towards a circular economy. How could this forward-thinking regulation impact on other countries around the world.
My oldest boy is 8 now. So I guess some time in 2012 I walked down an aisle of a shop in Stockholm looking to purchase a car seat.
World leaders seem to have been talking about the problem of plastic pollution without doing much about it for ages.