Plastic is used for food packaging (包装) and water bottles as well as many other things you use every day. Look around, plastic is all over! Sadly, much of plastic waste is thrown into waste lands or washed into the sea, breaking down into particles...
The kitchen is a good place to start because it’s where we use and discard a lot of plastic items. From food packaging to single-use cutlery and plates, we generate a significant amount of plastic waste every day. The problem with these items is that they are often used once and then...
Plastics Make it Possible?, an initiative sponsored by the plastics industries of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), partnered with leading food packaging expert Dr Paul Butler to investigate the issue further and propose ways consumers can help reduce food waste in their own lives.Pigment & ...
On 1 July, 2019, strict new regulations for waste-sorting came into effect in Shanghai that hold everyone from individuals and households to communities and businesses accountable. Shanghai residents must now separate their trash into four categories (recyclable, hazardous...
Why do you use plastic in your packaging? Our packaging plays a key role in protecting food, preventing food waste and ensuring the quality of our products. We use a range of materials, including glass, metal, paper and plastics. Plastics offer a unique combination of malleability, availability...
strict new regulations for waste-sorting came into effect in Shanghai that hold everyone from individuals and households to communities and businesses accountable. Shanghai residents must now separate their trash into four categories (recyclable, hazardous, household food and...
Single-use plastic food packaging is a major contributor to the global solid waste problem. Although the food industry is developing strategies to reduce single-use plastic packaging, it needs to better understand consumer awareness and attitudes about the issue. As consumer awareness about single-use...
plastic waste to social and ecological detriment and inequity. And of course this practice of shipping off domestic garbage is a cheaper way for the United States of dealing with the nonbiodegradable trash. From the sustainability perspective what makes the situation even more untenable is that, ...
"Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste es-capes into the oceans from coastal nations. " The waste affects more than 700 ocean-dwelling(以海洋为家的) specics by getting stuck in turtles stomachs and wrapping around scabirds necks and beaks. causing suflocation () or starvation....
strict new regulations for waste-sorting came into effect in Shanghai that hold everyone from individuals and households to communities and businesses accountable. Shanghai residents must now separate their trash into four categories (recyclable, hazardous, household food and residual) or face fines...