plastic
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Your Next Fast-Food Order Might Have Seaweed Packaging
Researchers from Flinders University have started using seaweed in an effort to solve the packaging waste dilemmas of the fast-food industry.
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How Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Others Delay Action on Plastic
When a huge plastic producer like Coca-Cola says it’s working to solve the plastic crisis, what does that really look like? An investigation published Friday by Bloomberg documents how one initiative in Ghana was used by some of the world’s biggest plastic producers to battle against threats of plastic bans, while failing to deliver on…
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What You Need to Know About Bioplastics
The plastic crisis can seem depressingly all-encompassing and impossible to escape: We’re producing more plastic than ever before, doing serious harm to the environment, the climate, and our own health, while our recycling system remains shamefully broken. So it may be comforting to pick up an iced coffee in a cup marked with a green…
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Samsung’s New Galaxy Phones Will Feature a Material Made Out of Discarded Fishing Nets
Your next Samsung Galaxy will feature a new material made of repurposed, discarded fishing nets that otherwise would have ended up in the oceans. There’s just one mystery: It’s not exactly clear what that material is. Consequently, we also don’t know how it will incorporated into the phone — if it’s actually in the phone…