Belgium also has a collection system, called VAL-I-PAC, for plastic packaging waste produced by construction projects. Plastic packaging waste is collected in 400 L bags sold by the collection system at 1 EU/bag. The bags are transported, sorted, and mechanically recycled. The packaging wastes ...
The article reports that a bill has been approved by Seattle's City Council in Washington, that will require consumers to pay 20 cents for every shopping bag they take home from drugstores and grocery stores. The bag tax, which goes into effect from January 1, 2009 includes paper and plast...
Louie Brown with the California Grocers Association said Senate Bill 270 — the bill that implemented the existing grocery bag law — worked initially. Then the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and grocers told customers not to bring reusable bags. Mark Murray, with Californians Against Waste, said the p...
“I’m a Target shopper. Hundreds of thousands of my petition’s signers are Target customers, and we have one clear message for Target: Please act to end plastic bag pollution,” she said. Target spokeswoman Danielle Schumann said the company has taken several steps to help reduce its use...
Malaysia plans to send back roughly 3,300 tons of plastic trash to countries like the U.S. and Canada, its environmental minister announced Tuesday. After China banned the import of plastic waste last year, Malaysia and other developing countries became the destination...
The technicians and designers at Abtec have the discipline and talent to take on any plastic injection molding project. As a leader in the plastic molding industry, we produce the highest quality plastic molded components and parts. Since the introduction of injection molding in the middle of the...
Figure 7. Bayesian network for the “drugs stored in gym bag” example showing data sets and models used to instantiate the nodes. Figure 8. Comparison of probabilities of direct, indirect and background TPPR for the zip-lock drugs bag example. Direct transfer was modelled from 𝑅𝐹𝑈...
2020). As the sea bin is placed in position, water is drawn in from the open top and passes through a filter bag inside the sea bin which only traps the waste (Riggs and Naito 2012). Small and large sea bins have been successfully used in California, Oregon, Hawaii, and Texas (...
re doing all you can to eliminate single-use plastics from your life. These refer to lids on disposable coffee cups, plastic cutlery, shopping bags, and so on. They are by no means luxury or necessary items, and to be honest, there is nothing chic about a plastic shopping bag. So, ...
Alternatives to the now infamous compound keep popping up. But researchers aren’t convinced they’re any better for us.