Protein Evolution Recycles Plastics Quickly — “1 Million Years Of Evolution In 1 Day”
Protein Evolution says it has developed a process that breaks down plastic waste so it can be used to make new products.
Protein Evolution says it has developed a process that breaks down plastic waste so it can be used to make new products.
Ocean Conservancy scientists estimate that newly passed California law will eliminate 23 million tons of plastics in the next 10 years — equivalent to 26 times the weight of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Our neighbor to the north will eliminate the manufacture and import of single-use and other plastics by year’s end. Why can’t the US legislate a similar, sweeping effort to fight pollution and climate change?
Are we kidding ourselves when we think that recycling is enough of a solution to the global plastics pollution problem?
Exxon is the target of new claims that Big Oil has hidden what it knows about plastics and pollution for decades.
Can promoting sustainable design of products and materials so that they can be reused, remanufactured, or recycled and retained in the economy help to solve the global plastics problem? How is the plastics manufacturing industry responding to potential moratoriums?
Scientists at MIT have created 2-dimensional polymers that are a light as plastic but stronger than steel.
Louisiana has a severe litter problem, and Governor Edwards addressed it in a recent press conference. The press conference was held on a bluff above a creek here in Baton Rouge. The creek was littered with beer cans, soda bottles, and other plastics and forms of trash. Governor Edwards announced … [continued]
Original article by Tessa Wardle
I read an article in The Guardian this week that was describing something as toxic as an oil spill — nurdles — and I was appalled and motivated to further raise awareness about these. Nurdles are tiny plastic pellets that are floating in the ocean. There are billions of them. … [continued]