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Pete Myers is chair, founder and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding in ...
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Every year up to USD 120 billion of value is lost to the economy in the form of plastic waste, with millions of tonnes of this potentially valuable resource ...
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Race for Water was pleased to conduct an interview with Dr. Jane Muncke, Director and Scientific Expert at Food Packaging Forum. As part of our "Meet the ...
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Pete Myers is chair, founder and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding in ...
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have now demonstrated how the carbon atoms in mixed waste can replace all fossil raw materials in ...
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Scientists have proven for the first time that viruses can survive and remain infectious by binding themselves to plastics in freshwater – raising concerns ...
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The new material gets its plastic-comparable strength from lignin, a biopolymer that makes up the hard wall of plant cells. In previous work, the EPFL team ...
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The Clean Seas supported side-event at the UN Ocean Conference brings together Clean Seas partners to discuss the critical role partnerships have played in the ...
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Scientists have designed a tiny robot-fish that is programmed to remove microplastics from seas and oceans by swimming around and adsorbing them on its soft, ...
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Bottlespotter – Monitoring of water pollution by Moritz Gysi and Joël Habersatter "A research project at ETH Zurich is investigating the waste load of ...
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Researchers have found a biologically active slow sand filter as the most effective way to remove nanoplastics from drinking water Today's filtration ...
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Julia Bodin is a trained environmental engineer. As part of her work for an NGO, she has committed herself to sustainable innovation in the field of marine ...
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Edible kelp packaging and plastic-free insulation: 9 innovations designed to help end plastic pollution It's likely that only 9% of the 8.3 billion tonnes of ...
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"It's not about naming and shaming," but "empowering governments," with information to help tackle the problem, explained Fabien Laurier, a key architect of ...
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“We’re making these nurdles and basically spilling oil, just in a different form.” By Neel Dhaneshaneel.dhanesha@vox.com May 6, 2022, 6:00am EDT NEW ...
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A new study outlines the use of a specially created enzyme variant that vastly reduces the time it takes to break down the components of plastics. We could ...
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Plastics surround us, whether it’s the grocery bags we use at the supermarket or household items such as shampoo and detergent bottles. Plastics don’t exist ...
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Solubag Africa, a world-leading environmental solutions expert, is using a new technology to produce bags that dissolve when they come into contact with ...
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