by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 12, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Europe
The European Commission recently presented an ambitious new directive to tackle marine litter by introducing a number of measures, including reduction and restriction of selected single-use plastic products, such as disposable balloon sticks, straws, cutlery, plates,...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 12, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Global
HAY! Straws are made from natural wheat stems and are 100% biodegradable, which means they won’t linger in landfills, polluting our land or oceans. They are similar in feel and function to the plastic straws we’ve all become so accustomed to, but without the toxins...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 11, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Global, Scrap Plastics
I haven’t seen Blue Planet II. I may be the only person in the country who hasn’t. But I’ve heard about it. Of course I have. Because now we are at war with plastic. We will fight plastic on our streets, we will fight plastic in our supermarkets and we will fight...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 11, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Major Vietnam shipping terminals will temporarily stop accepting imports of scrap plastic, citing an overload of the material that has caused backups and delays. The move is a significant development for the global recycled plastics industry, because Vietnam has...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 8, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Daily News, Environmental, Recycling
THE island of Siargao in the Philippines, the country’s major surfing destination, has joined the rest of the world in adopting a movement to solve the pollution caused by plastic bottles through the so-called eco-bricks (ecobricks.org). Eco-bricks are made of used...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 5, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Global, Polymer Science, Recycling
As the damaging effects of plastic pollution continue to increase, it’s growing increasingly necessary to take aggressive action against them. Recycling is one of the more conventional approaches to tackling the plastic waste problem, but it may not be effective...
