Collaborate Disseminate
Loose plastic bags can be a hassle to separate and store for recycling, plus they may blow away and become litter if they’re left outside at the recycling depot. The Clear Drop SPC is made to help, by compressing loads of your bags into compact bricks…. Continue reading Clear Drop aims to streamline recycling by pressing bags into bricks
If you’ve ever been turning over your compost heap and found months-old “compostable” plastic items that were still mostly intact – well, you’re not alone. New research states that 60% of such plastics don’t fully biodegrade in home composting systems…. Continue reading Study shows majority of “home compostable” plastics don’t fully degrade
Plastic waste is one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time, and sorting different types makes recycling tricky. Now, engineers at MIT have developed an effective new catalyst that breaks down mixed plastics into propane, which can the… Continue reading Efficient new catalyst converts mixed plastic waste into propane
In a bid to reduce the environmental burden associated with both the manufacturing and disposal of plastics, scientists have demonstrated a new upcycling technique that turns one common form of it into another. The team says they also have the means to… Continue reading Recycling breakthrough turns one common type of plastic into another
The Ocean Cleanup has a huge task on its hands in ridding the seas of plastic waste, but a sleek new video offers a compelling look at its latest plan of attack. The animation shows massive trash-collection barriers sweeping through the Great Pacific G… Continue reading Ocean Cleanup video artfully depicts demise of Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Consumer electronics giant Acer has released a new Chromebook that could have you turning a little green – not with envy, but in an eco-friendly sense. The Vero 514 makes use of recycled and recyclable materials, while also embracing repairability.Cont… Continue reading Acer cooks sustainability and repairability into durable Chromebook
Plastic pollution is a grave and growing concern, but the biggest problems that it poses may just come from its smallest forms. Tiny fragments of the stuff are now strewn across the entire globe and are beginning to show up in different parts of the hu… Continue reading What do we really know about microplastics and human health?
Scientists in the Netherlands studying the spread of plastic waste have turned their eye to meat and dairy products, and discovered high rates of contamination in farm animals. The findings shed new light on the way microplastics move through the food … Continue reading Microplastics found in the meat, milk and blood of farm animals
While researchers continue to deepen our understanding of plastic contamination throughout the environment, much of the focus centers on marine organisms and of course humans themselves. Scientists in the UK have turned their eye to small land mammals … Continue reading Study finds plastics in more than half of small land mammals sampled
Plastic is infamous for its ability to persist in the environment for many years, and while alternatives made from biomass may well address this issue, they don’t always offer the same performance during use. Scientists have created a new form of biopl… Continue reading Bioplastic made with vanilla bean extract self-destructs under UV light