Tag Plastic - results: 30
Norway recycles 97% of the plastic bottles. Her technique is impressive
what Norway has succeeded better than any other country, so it is in the processing of plastic waste. If the U.S. level of reuse of plastic reaches only 30%, in the Nordic country, this figure reaches unimaginable 97%, and in the ...
The deep ocean turned into "bins" for plastic waste
Plastic waste heavily pollute the environment, and this process is very difficult to stop. Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK found that non-degradable garbage is not only on the surface of the Earth, but in the depth...
Created a biodegradable plastic, the production of which generally there is no waste
Plastic waste is a very important problem for the ecology of our planet. Take at least the Great Pacific garbage patch, the problem with that is . Now there is no dearth of projects for the production of biodegradable plastic, but...
Found a cheap way of turning CO2 into plastic, building materials and even medicines
Carbon dioxide is a waste in many industries. And he is known not only pollutes environment but also is one of the causes of global warming. So if we care about the future of our planet — we need to reduce its content in the...
Found a way of recycling plastic waste into a universal material
Research to rid the world of plastic waste have been conducted regularly. Someone offers recycling, someone offers to move to a completely new kind of plastic, but researchers from the National University of Singapore want to use ...
Developed a biodegradable 'plastic' from... potatoes
In only one world ocean, according to various estimates, is up to 8 million tons of plastic. And that's not considering plastic dumping ground on the land. We already wrote about the fact that plastic can be much more harmful than...
GENECIS: project for processing of food waste into bioplastics for 3D printing
food waste management is probably one of the most important problems concerning the environment. And if the discharge of substances from the combustion or gasoline engines in theory possible to do something radically abandoning th...
great Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy and the European Union, signed the Charter for the ocean plastic after a meeting of leaders G7 in July. Coca-Cola, Walmart, and other major multinational corporations have agreed to...
Scientists have created water-soluble plastic
the Problem of pollution with plastic waste and their derivatives is particularly acute the first year and many scientists from around the world are trying to solve it. However, it is possible that a group of Chilean scientists ha...
At MIT learned to control the properties of plastic
for over a hundred years of plastic products and plastics are widely used in many areas of our life. However, the physical properties of this material can depend not only on composition but also on the molecular structure. Recentl...