Category "Waste"

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy’s port city of Genoa is making bioplastics from agro-waste. The institute has tied up with the city’s central vegetable market for sourcing raw material.

Researchers at IBM developed a catalytic chemical process that digests certain plastics, like PET, into a substance that can directly be reused in the manufacturing of new plastic.

The co-founder of the Restart Project, shares the ways policymakers, designers and citizens can support a people-centred circular economy.

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) has embarked on a four-year collaboration project in Pravia, Spain, to recover plastics from general domestic waste collections. If successful, it could be rolled out nationwide.

Partner aus Forschung und Industrie wollen in Bayern eine Demonstrationsanlage errichten, mit der erstmals auch Verpackungen aus Kunststoffverbünden recycelt werden können.

Here is why some plastic packaging is necessary to prevent food waste and protect the environment.

A growing number of startups are focused on providing containers and food-service items that can stay in circulation for weeks, months or years - and are recyclable at the end of life.

BPA, PET, HDPE. You’re trying to do the right thing by recycling, following health alerts and shopping wisely, but you’re not fluent in molecular chemistry? Here you go.

Bacteria and fungi might conjure up images of diseases and spoiled food, but they also do a lot of good. The billions of microbes in a handful of dead leaves, for example, act as nature's recyclers and regenerate nutrients needed for the next generation of plants to grow.

ChuChu Design is an eco-friendly startup lifting families out of poverty with the art of upcycling.