Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Plastics
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Vegetable strength
ADDING the genes of broccoli, cabbage or cauliflower to those of rapeseed could yield an oil that can be used to make superstrong plastics. Presently, rape-seed oil yields only 66 per cent erucic
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Plastic purge
The mounting problem of non-biodegradable plastic waste seems to have caught the Sri Lankan government's attention. The country's cabinet has given its nod to a series of proposals put forward by the
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It s money, stupid
Waste can fuel savings in cement plants
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Fireproof plastic
A FORMER British hairdresser, Maurice Ward, who traded his shears in the early 1970s for an executive desk at a plastic-recycling firm that he set up, says he has invented a fireproof plastic
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Biodegradable plastic
IN THE near future, plastic won't be an environmental pejorative. The Japan Corn Starch Co Ltd, in collaboration with US business firm Grand River Technologies of Michigan, will produce a fully
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Plastic is good
Incinerating unrecyclable waste plastic is environmentally the most benign way of disposing of it, new experiments show (New Scientist, Vol 143, No 1932). Europe's Association of Plastic
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Book review: Plastics for Environment & Sustainable Development
For those concerned about the plastic age in which we live, this eco assessment study is a must read. But do not go by the report s name, for its purpose seems to be to give a befitting reply to all campaigners who keep crying that plastics are bad
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Oil from waste
A waste recycling plant in Bottrop, Germany, has developed a technology to convert assorted plastic wastes into oil. The synthetic waste -- plastic bags, yoghurt cartons and computer casings -- is
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Cinderella s carriage
Biodegradable plastic car parts can be made from miscanthus grass
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SOUTH AFRICA
One of the main causes of pollution in South Africa is plastic packa ging, says a recent study. The Water Research Com mission and the Cape Metro politan Council conducted a four-year study into the