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A London-based start-up, FabricNano, is developing a system to produce plastics without oil and gas in a bid to make bio-based and sustainable chemicals more commonly available. The chemical sector ...

Agricultural scientists from Uganda have invented biodegradable plastics for use in wrapping nursery seedlings made from farm wastes in a bid to face off non-biodegradable plastics that seedlings nursery operators ...

New data shows that the majority of UK adults support substituting conventional plastic with compostable alternatives and want local authorities and government to do more to incentivise the collection of ...

Bio-PET factory, one of world’s largest, would cut carbon emissions tied to drink bottles.   TOKYO — Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co. will decide next year whether to build a ...

The Government of New Zealand has passed legislation that will restrict a wide range of plastic products to be sold in New Zealand, including non-compostable produce stickers. Produce stickers for ...

An open call issued by an EU-backed project is giving SMEs and other companies the chance to make their bio-based technologies and solutions market-ready.  Spanish plastics technology company AIMPLAS has ...

Not only being a trailblazer in researching and developing compostable materials and products in Vietnam, An Phat Holdings also wrote the story of an enterprise that was ahead of the ...

Single-use plastics (designed to be used once and disposed of) may be cheap and convenient, but the cost to the environment is enormous. The New South Wales (NSW) Government is ...