Tag: plastics

Palm oil is a key ingredient in everything from soaps and shampoos to ice-cream and margarine. Farmers today produce more ...

Live Polystyrene, food wrappers and cigarette butts were among the most common items found by volunteers collecting rubbish from Australia’s ...

Today, plastics are ubiquitous, pervading all aspects of human activity and invading all dimensions of the environment, with the result ...

Here is a weird coincidence: Microplastics were first used in cosmetics in the 1970s, when they were also first identified ...

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Amazon’s plastic packaging waste soared by almost a third, to 270,000 tonnes, during the pandemic last year, according to a ...

A hand-held device capable of instantly identifying whether a plastic is suitable for recycling has been named among the winners ...

A bill recently in California would criminalize putting the well-known recycling symbol on any item that is not commonly recycled. ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers in the BOTTLE Consortium, including from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy ...

Greenpeace activists dumped half a tonne of household rubbish outside Downing Street as they called for a ban on the ...