Lower-end fishing rods, as well as many higher-end ones, usually feature guides made of either thin stainless steel or aluminum oxide ... to fish lighter-weight soft-plastic lures, or the medium ...

Step aside hard, rigid materials. There is a new soft, sustainable electroactive material in town — and it’s poised to open new possibilities for medical devices, wearable technology, and ...

An investigation into the recycling of soft plastics by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has led to calls for Sainsbury’s and Tesco to publicly support the Global ...

An investigation has shown that 70% of the soft plastics customers hand to supermarket recycling schemes don't end up going where they might presume ...

In 2021, the supermarket set up bins in its stores in which customers could leave their difficult-to-recycle “soft plastics”, like the low density polyethylene from shopping bags and film lids.

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Following today’s release of a report on the recycling of soft plastics by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), members of the industry have commented. The investigation ...

There are few more villainous products in the eyes of hardcore environmentalists than plastics. Plastics are difficult to recycle, they complain. The production of plastics emits lots of carbon ...

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Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities ...

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