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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 ...
Documents leaked from an industry group show how plastics companies are pushing back against a “tide of anti-plastic sentiment.” By Hiroko Tabuchi Paid influencers on TikTok. An infomercial ...
Manjula-Basavanna and Joshi envision that the product could be used for what they call "primary packaging"—that filmy plastic that protects the screen and case of your iPhone, for instance.
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 ...