GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets. There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: "plastic neutrality." Thanks to the rise in plastics pledges, an emerging and undefined market for plastic offsets is just beginning to take shape. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 02/08/2021 - 01:30.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 10, 2022

Plastic, while bad for the environment, is an important tool in the fight against food waste. How do we balance those pros and cons?

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

New research appears to show that the filters leak thousands of toxins and plastic fibres that are toxic to aquatic larvae. Cigarette filters are also a major source of the microplastics that find their way into our environment – something we know has a major negative impact on biological life. It’s hazardous waste.” Ban the filters!

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 30, 2019

But when faced with the perplexing conundrum of whether to grab that plastic bottle or aluminum can, which do you choose to be more environmentally-friendly? The history of plastic goes back to the early 1900s when the first fully synthetic plastic was invented as an alternative to the shellac used in electronic insulation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Bertie Stephens, group CEO of Clean Planet Energy , said: “Clean Planet Energy’s mission is to remove over one million tonnes of non-recyclable plastic waste from our environment, every year. Each facility is designed to accept 20,000 tonnes of plastics each year.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

By 2030 plastic waste is expected to increase by more than 50% to 330 million tons per annum if business continues as usual. Not only is this unsustainable for communities and the environment, it also makes little sense economically. Recent figures show $120 billion is lost each year because plastic waste is mismanaged.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 25, 2023

A University of Leicester academic has led a study which appears to find that plastic pollution is changing the way riverbeds behave. The research led the team to establish a novel branch of sedimentology which looks at the interactions between plastic particles and sediment. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic pollution crisis. However, they caution that plastic removal technologies used so far have shown varied efficiency in the amount of waste material they are able to collect, many have not been tested at all.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Plymouth Marine Laboratory writes Our new study investigates what happens when biodegradable plastics enter the ocean, and whether these increasingly popular alternatives to conventional plastics are safer for marine ecosystems, or whether they come with their own risks. million metric tons in 2023 to almost 5.3

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

Current rates of plastic emissions globally may trigger effects that we will not be able to reverse, argues a new study by researchers from Sweden, Norway and Germany published on 2 July in Science. “The world promotes technological solutions for recycling and to remove plastic from the environment. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

The method involves a combination of analyzing plastic oxidation levels with environmental factors such as UV exposure and ambient temperature. In marine environments from lakes to oceans, plastics are the most abundant type of pollutant. As plastic waste is exposed to the elements they eventually break down and fragment.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2024

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has published the first two in a series of ‘Solution Model’ playbooks, to improve the understanding of the many stakeholders across the plastic value chain about what is possible and what else is needed to drive systems change to end plastic waste in the environment and develop a circular economy for plastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

The fundamental mechanisms that allow tiny pieces of plastic bags and foam packaging at the nanoscale to move through the environment seem to have been described in more detail by researchers at Washington State University. ” Around since the 1950s, plastics have properties that make them useful for modern society.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

The problem with microplastics Microplastics are solid plastic particles composed of mixtures of polymers and functional additives that measure less than 5 mm and may contain residual impurities. While microplastics are useful, scientists, governments and consumers now recognize them as a major threat to the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The last decade has seen some progress with studying plastic pollution, but there are still significant challenges, such as a lack of comparability of reported results, especially when it comes to microplastic particles. However, the comparisons made showed that their impact on the environment would be very different.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Recycling Association has warned that waste crime will continue to happen, even if exports of plastics for recycling are banned. MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have called for the Government to ban exports of recyclable plastics by 2027 and introduce measures to reduce them before then.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 11, 2023

New “bio” ropes made from biomaterials have the potential to replace conventional plastics of fossil origin in mussel and algae cultivation, say the groups behind their development, who claim sustainability advantages including up to 34% carbon footprint reduction compared to ropes made from conventional plastics.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Ensuring Performance and Safety in Recycled Plastics. As companies and consumer brands incorporate recycled plastic content into their products and as part of their circularity goals, product integrity becomes an important consideration. How regulations and brands are driving the use of recycled plastics. Topic include: .

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Geoscience technology firm CGG has conducted a microplastics pollution survey as part of a scoping study into whether it would be possible to create a “Plastic Free zone” on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon). This workflow can be used to calculate the volume, size and shape of plastic particles within a sample.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Researchers from University of California, Riverside, have detailed a method to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal or char that has a whopping surface area of about 400 square meters per gram of mass. The plastic-to-char process was developed at UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 25, 2023

Unlike glass, which is infinitely recyclable (well okay, maybe not exactly ), plastic is challenging and expensive to recycle because of the material’s complex molecular structure designed for specific needs. It recently featured on the cover of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Surface cracks and biofilms on plastic particles might help spread pollution Concerns about microplastic pollution arise not only because of the particles themselves, but also from whatever cargo they might be carrying. Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (image credit: takepicsforfun / Shutterstock.com).

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

For decades, wealthy nations have transported plastic trash, and the environmental problems that go with it, to poorer countries, but researchers say they have found a potential bright side to this seemingly unequal trade: plastic waste may provide an economic boon for the lower-income countries. graduate and lead author on the study.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Plastic pollution in the ocean may serve as a source for novel antibiotics, according to a new student-led study conducted in collaboration with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The researchers incubated high and low density polyethylene plastic (the type commonly seen in grocery bags) in water near Scripps Pier in La Jolla, Calif.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2024

Airborne microplastics are tiny plastic particulates (less than 100 µm) that become suspended in the atmosphere and dispersed throughout the environment, but it has been unclear where they end up. Crucially, previous studies that used only the first two methods may have underestimated the number of plastics adhering to leaf surfaces.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Bradford Council has worked with waste plastic road company MacRebur to become the first local authority in the region to specify road surfacing material that contains recycled plastic. Based in Lockerbie, MacRebur has been processing waste plastics otherwise destined for landfill or incineration since 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

UK biotech company Toraphene says it is preparing to unveil the world’s first truly biodegradable, compostable and commercially viable alternative to plastic packaging. And so it is being presented as the first commercially viable alternative to plastics. Such plastics make up 23 percent of marine waste.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

A study of 29 European lakes has found that some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the remains of plastic bags than on natural matter like leaves and twigs. The bacteria break down the carbon compounds in plastic to use as food for their growth.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Patrick Hall of Bright Blue argues the government's welcome Environment Bill can afford to take a tougher line on tackling black plastic.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

The new advocacy campaign, named Microplastics Out of Our Drains (MOOD) , is calling for industry and government to come together to take decisive action to tackle the serious threat that microplastics pose to our drains, oceans, environment and overall health.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In its response to a Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) consultation on proposed exemptions, including the co-collection of dry mixed recyclables, NLWA argued that local authorities are best placed to decide how they collect waste and recycling in their areas.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

Baled plastic bottles (image credit: Burke Museum , CC BY-NC 2.0 The Recycling Association has produced guidance on the issuance of Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics. This document helps members interpret the regulations for the 2022 accreditation year. Significant numbers of PERNs were cancelled as a result.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

“We have received many letters from children about the environment asking us to remove single-use plastic packaging,” said LEGO Group CEO, Niels B Christiansen, in a statement. “We The Danish toymaker announced Tuesday that it will replace the plastic bags inside boxed LEGO sets with recyclable paper ones.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Organisers have confirmed the full conference programme for the Plastics Recycling Show Europe Virtual Event taking place 9-11 December 2020. Fellow panellists include Ton Emans, President of Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) and Maria Ciliberti, Vice President at Borealis. Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, CET on 10 December.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates. Researchers from a dozen universities around the world found that, for every 1 percent increase in the amount of plastic a company uses, there is an associated 1 percent increase in its contribution to global plastic litter.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Synthetic and natural microfibres from plastic pollution, the textile industry and fishing activities have increased dramatically in the environment, becoming the most common type of particles in the ocean. The study also raises the question of the environmental risk of microfibres.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

This species of bacteria is found in all environments and has previously been shown to colonise microplastics in the environment. Moreover, microplastics are also difficult to remove in wastewater plants, resulting in their undesired release into the environment.” ” Promoting biofilms.

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