Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

HMC聚合物公司最近加入了终结塑料垃圾联盟（Alliance to End Plastic Waste），这是一个由行业支持的非盈利机构，旨在解决塑料污染问题。 推动塑料认证仍然是新的要求，因为正是公众对塑料污染的意识促使了消费品公司使用更多的可回收塑料。“直到最近 ...

Polythene is a ubiquitous plastic, found in everything from plastic bags to food packaging. The new textiles have potential uses in sports wear, and even high-end fashion, according to US researchers.

But have some gone too far with their claims? Clipper, the UK's sixth biggest tea brand, declares its bags "plastic free". But when you look at the small print it says the company uses a bio ...

Easy, convenient, cheap': how single-use plastic rules the ... with pandan leaf or blue with butterfly pea -- sit in clear plastic bags alongside rows of taro pudding in plastic boxes.

In various cities and states, plastic bag bans have taken hold as a way to reduce pollution and prevent excess waste from harming the environment. But what differences have the laws made in ...

These days, it’s pretty cheap and easy to build your ... The design uses a plastic bag as a skirt, assembled around a 3D printed frame. That proved to be the hardest part of the build, as ...

Dr. Tarun Anumol, from Agilent Technologies, said plastic bags are commonly made from the polymer polyethylene, which depending on the conditions can take up to 1,000 years to fully break down in ...

Rather than trash it, you can find new uses for almost any worn and unwanted item, including grocery bags. Whether you save ...

Imagine five plastic grocery bags stuffed with plastic trash ... to be made from the same stuff that was giving us abundant, cheap energy: petroleum. Oil companies had waste gases like ethylene ...

California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning plastic shopping bags in grocery stores, updating a decade-old ban ...