and can be recycled, they say. Dr Svetlana Boriskina, from the department of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, US, said plastic bags that nobody wants ...

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Supermarket chain SPAR Hungary has introduced recyclable shopping bags made from the company’s plastic waste in its stores. The company says it uses 150 tonnes of plastic waste each year to ...