Hansen Packaging has created a range of lightweight jars made from renewable sources such as hemp for the cannabis industry as part of plans to restrict the use of plastics.

Here is everything you need to understand recycling contamination facts, common contaminants, and how you can help make move our planet toward a more circular economy.

In the washing machine, abrasion of clothes removes tiny fibres which are too small to be caught by the machine’s filters. This may add up to hundreds of thousands of fibres from a single wash.

This calculator lets you figure out–and visualize–the giant pile of plastic your habits end up creating.

VTT mouldable paperboard technology enables the replacement of plastics in deep-drawn products: renewable raw materials, excellent stiffness and recyclability.

Central Saint Martins post-graduate student Mi Zhou has created toiletry bottles called Soapack that are cast from soap and melt away once they are no longer useful.

In the paper making process, banana fibres fuse together on a microscopic level to create a ‘leather-like’ paper material that is lightweight, tear-resistant, and biodegradable.

Nearly a third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted, according to the UN’s World Resources Institute. If we convert this mass into calories, it constitutes nearly a quarter of all food produced.

Born from the idea that fibers could be cultivated from the weed, Don Kwaning has designed a line of products using varying parts of the grass-like plant.

Transition creates opportunities for Japan´s declining paper industry.