Discarded plastic items will have the opportunity to be reborn as new products, re-entering the consumer market with ...

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Over a third of this is in the form packaging, which is more often than not discarded after just one use. But it isn't just plastic packaging that Europeans are throwing out in large volumes.

Edible packaging has emerged as an urgent and sustainable alternative to plastic, designed to be zero waste. stock.adobe.com Share Oceans and landfills are overflowing with plastic waste ...

And all too often, this excess packaging ends up in the bin. Packaging itself takes up almost a third of all plastics production, but only 14 percent of it will be recycled, according to a joint ...

Research published in ACS Omega suggests that replacing the plastic layer with paper could create a more sustainable packaging material. The researchers used mechanical demonstrations and computer ...

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They are obliged to cover an initial 20 percent of their plastic packaging footprint, calculated based on the weight of plastic packaging they put into the market. The obligation will rise to a ...

a 31 per cent jump in three years partly due to increased plastic packaging of food, gifts and other online orders that mushroomed during the pandemic, activists said. Data for 2023 has not been ...

Plastics only began to be produced in large quantities following the second world war – but plastic pollution has since become one of the most serious threats humanity faces. By 2015, 60% of all ...