Category "Plastics"

Design graduate Micaella Pedros demonstrates how heat-shrunk plastic bottles can be used to create stable furniture joints in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the Royal College of Art.

One of the biggest concerns surrounding the proliferation of microplastics in the world's oceans is how they might move up the food web from smaller to larger marine life, eventually ending up in our stomachs.

Microplastic from tyres and roads which end up in the ocean make up 89% of ultra fine particles found in the air around busy motorways.

Are biodegradable, compostable and bio-plastics really a better environmental solution? Richard McKinlay, Head of Circular Economy at Axion, offers his opinion.

The first fruit and biogenic packaging to be grown into a 3D printed mould.

STU team in Bratislava develops second-generation bio-based bioplastic made of renewable raw materials which is biodegradable too.

Environmental charity Greenpeace has released data following a nine-month study carried out across 42 countries - as it emerges that a truckload of plastic is dumped in the sea every MINUTE.

UK startup Recycling Technologies uses a mass producible, transportable machine located at waste and recycling sites to convert plastic back into its oil form - called Plaxx.

One Canadian small business is using clean technology to turn carbon-packed food waste into biodegradable plastic.

Researchers at the University of Alicante have developed a procedure that removes printed ink on plastic films used in flexible packaging getting a product free from ink and suitable for recycling.