Plastic plays a significant role in food packaging as: it serves to meet product safety and quality requirements. However, some types of packaging remain difficult to recycle for a number of technological and practical reasons and are prone to littering.
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A London theatre is banning single-use plastic bottles as part of a mission to become a net-zero carbon venue by 2020. The Royal Court theatre in Chelsea announced it was scrapping its plan to put on a month of of shows focussing on the climate emergency, according to the Guardian.
A bill calling for the phase-out of single-use plastic products has been filed at the House of Representatives. House Bill No. 8692, or the “Ban on Single-use Plastic Products,” proposed to prohibit enterprises from manufacturing, importing and selling single-use plastics. The bill covers plastic packaging, such as grocery bags; food packaging and containers, water bottles, straws, cups, and sachets.
Over 2.8 billion people globally still don’t have access to safe drinking water. Saba Mebrahtu Habte, Yvanah Hernandez, Wang Zhao and Xiwang Zhang discuss promising developments in water desalination and purification schemes that offer promise in improving access.
Now, more than ever, there is a need to embrace sustainability to address the challenges that Mother Earth faces. The future generation will run out of fossil fuels. Thousands if not millions of animal species will become extinct. We will run out of lumber. We will fill the bodies of water with waste. We will damage the atmosphere beyond repair. All these and more are possible if we don’t change and practice sustainable living.
Commissioner Crispian Lao, speaking before the BM Coffee Club online forum titled “Best Practices in Sustainability”, on August 26, 2021, said sustainability is looking towards the future, looking towards our grandchildren and the grandchildren of our grandchildren.
It grows like a weed, can make a rock float and — perhaps most promising — it’s six times warmer than wool, which means it could offer a plant-based alternative to down.
Staying ahead of the technology curve means strengthening your competitive advantage. That is why we give you data-driven innovation insights into the Circular Economy. This time, you get to discover 5 hand-picked startups developing sustainable rubber recycling solutions.