Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it
An international team of researchers has decided to take advantage of those strains and bundle plastic-eating bacteria into ...
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Can a treaty undo the world’s plastic problem?
Creating a global treaty on plastic isn’t easy, but the U.S. and other United Nations members are getting closer. They’re ...
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This Plastic Is Embedded With Bacterial Spores That Break It Down After It’s Thrown Out
The approach resulted in 93 percent of the plastic biodegrading within five months, and even increased the strength and ...
Plastic pollution talks make modest progress but sidestep production curbs
Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense ...
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Plastic Manufacturing & Processing Are Still Increasing, Study Finds
Plastic - once seen as a marvel of modern science with uses from packaging to textiles - is now a scourge polluting our ...
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Shopper calls out Folgers over change to coffee product: 'Wrapped in non-recyclable plastic for no reason'
Plastic packaging is already controversial for being hard on the environment, but what's worse is when companies add more ...
Plastic Is Polluting Our Oceans. Will We Get a Treaty to Cut Plastic Waste?
Negotiators are considering ways to limit the massive amounts of plastic waste polluting oceans, harming wildlife and ...
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Plastic pollution treaty would be 'failure' without tackling emissions
Plastic production is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than flying – at a summit in Canada, countries were ...
New Atlas4d
Extra-strong spore-loaded plastic eats itself when it hits landfill
Scientists have demonstrated a creative solution to plastic pollution, one of our most pressing environmental problems.
Plastic is climate change in a bottle – so let’s put a cap on it
Some of the solutions to plastic waste and climate change are the same. Like scrapping fossil fuel subsidies, which keep ...
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The more plastic companies make, the more they pollute
The more plastic a company makes, the more pollution it creates.
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A global study just revealed the world’s biggest known plastic polluters
“We know what works: make less plastic and use less plastic,” Tangri said. Plastics, which are made from fossil fuels, have helped to buoy the fossil fuel industry even as climate policies ...