A Green Future for Aviation: Addressing the Challenges of Single-Use Plastic Products (SUPPs)
The aviation industry has long relied on single-use plastic products (SUPPs) to ensure convenience, hygiene, and operational efficiency. Items such as plastic cups, utensils, food trays, packaging, and luggage wraps ...
DIFFERENTIATING BIODEGRADABILITY CONCEPTS: UNDERSTAND TO MAKE WISE CHOICES
In the face of escalating environmental pollution, the demand for eco-friendly products is on the rise. Along with this trend, various terms related to material decomposition, such as biodegradable, compostable, ...
Plastic recycling: A sustainable solution for the industry
Plastic recycling, especially chemical and physical recycling, is a critical part of the carbon management strategy and environmental impact reduction of the plastics industry. The RCI Position Paper on Chemical ...
PLA water bottle with embossed label facilitates recycled PLA production
Together with TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands), Korean water producer Sansu (Seoul, South Korea) is developing an embossed label water bottle made of Luminy® PLA bioplastics to speed up the ...
Japanese team create biodegradable plastic fit for industrial use
A team of Japanese researchers said Wednesday it has developed a new bioplastic that is not only durable but degrades rapidly in seawater and can be mass produced. The ...
Make plastic packaging less confusing, scientists warn
If you want people to recycle compostable plastics appropriately, they need more help understanding how to do it. That is one of the conclusions of a new study of university ...
Biodegradable microplastics disappear in just seven months
Microplastics can take 100-1,000 years to degrade. Now, thanks to a research breakthrough, they can do it in just seven months. Microplastics are tiny, nearly indestructible fragments shed from everyday ...
Indonesia plans to ban single-use plastic by end of 2029
Indonesia will start imposing a ban on single-use plastic products by the end of 2029, the country’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said on Monday (Jun 5). By that time, manufacturers ...
