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After over two years of battling the global pandemic, the plastics industry continues to face significant worldwide challenges.
As the world moves towards a greener agenda, it’s no surprise that goods and materials manufacturers are starting to shift production methods.
Anti-plastic rhetoric has grown increasingly rampant over the past few years. Some argue that the solution to plastic waste is to simply ban all plastic, full stop. However, it is important to step back and ask if that approach truly takes us in the right direction - and if it is realistic. By Cassie Bradley
Waste crime continues to be a pressing issue for businesses operating in the materials handling and logistics industry – the plastics industry in particular.
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.