Sentences with phrase «of waste plastics»

As China's import restrictions see levels of waste plastic rise in the UK, Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Polymers, argues that low - grade materials should be landfilled rather than burnt for energy.

Eloise McLennan finds out what the food industry is doing to tackle the issue of waste plastic.

The Eden Project has launched a range of home compostable coffee capsules that directly addresses the problem of waste plastic.

The spools of plastic «ink» used in 3 - printers are not so cheap — about $ 30 a spool — and depending on what the printer is printing, could end up as nothing more than an expensive blob of waste plastic.

This change has come as a huge blow to the UK, in particular, which used to ship two - thirds of its waste plastic to China.

For the past twenty years, it has imported enormous quantities of waste plastic from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2009 about 3.8 million tons of waste plastic «bags, sacks and wraps» were generated in the United States, but only 9.4 % of this total was recycled.

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In doing so, he adopted the belief of many industry activists that plastic waste is within our power to regulate and that we can address the lack of knowledge, poor waste management procedures, and societal neglect.

With more plastic than plankton at the center of the seas, marine life is consuming this waste.

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

GreenMantra Recycling, a Toronto - based startup that's found a way of converting plastic waste into industrial waxes, plans two or three rounds of in - person interviews for each new employee, even the most junior.

Hopefully, one of the world's large plastic bottling companies will snatch up this cool modification and help give plastic bottles a new purpose that will remove them permanently from the waste stream.

These new activities for Veolia include the likes of plastics and chemicals recycling, toxic waste handling, the management of water for aquaculture, the production of energy from waste or biomass and the capture of methane.

The New Plastics Economy presents three key platforms: creating an effective after - use plastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to crPlastics Economy presents three key platforms: creating an effective after - use plastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to crplastics economy by improving global recycling efforts, reducing the leakage of plastic waste into the environment, and decoupling plastic from the fossil fuels used to create it.

Currently, only 14 % of plastic packaging waste is recycled.

Their contribution to urban waste is negligible: a recent Toronto street - litter survey found plastic retail bags constitute less than 1 % of total garbage.

Whether or not we realize it, researchers are coming up with new ways to create and use plastics that could benefit the plastics industry — as well as society and the environment — by reducing the costs of consumer goods, making renewable energy more available and reducing plastic waste.

We have produced 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste.

The distribution of plastic bags has been identified as a key environmental concern and has been called out by municipalities as a large contributor to land - fill waste.

Tethers Unlimited has been working on a specialized 3D printer that can convert plastic waste — which comprises much of the space debris spinning around in orbit — into filament, or feedstock, or 3D printers.

Just look at the plastic rubbish on one tiny little island in the South Pacific that doesn't have any human inhabitants, yet has collected 18 million tonnes of plastic waste just from the sea, despite being in the middle of nowhere.

This means that the things they made 30 or 40 years ago lasted longer than they do today, and so the cheap plastic parts of today are a waste of money and therefore not as valuable.

Maybe it's making for «no straw» in your drink when you go out, bringing your own bags to the grocery store, getting coffee or a smoothie in your own cup / jar, bringing your own silverware when you're out and about, switching from paper to cloth napkins, buying bread from a local bakery or making it yourself instead of buying in plastic, switching to a menstrual cup or washable cloth pads instead of disposable, there's so many different ways to produce less waste.

For example, in terms of reducing waste, CU's housing and dining services collects pre - and post-consumer waste, along with used fryer oil, cardboard, glass and plastic.

During the 2010 - 2011 school year, the department composted 143 tons of food waste, collected 4,533 gallons of used cooking oil (to create biodiesel fuel) and recycled more than 150 tons of cardboard, glass and plastic.

Similarly, Unilever has urged the fast - moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector «to step up its efforts to tackle the mounting challenge of ocean plastic waste and create a circular economy for plastics».

Recommendations for actions include: specific targets to reduce single - use plastic packaging; scaling up the use of reusable packaging; reviewing food cosmetic standards and labelling; greater investment in waste prevention systems; and looking at how market - based instruments like extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes can prompt behavioural change towards avoiding food and plastic waste.

According to Julian Kirby, lead plastics campaigner at Friends of the Earth UK: «What that really casts into quite serious doubt, I think, is the argument that the food packaging industry use quite often which is that we need plastic to avoid food waste.

There are several industry collaborations that are working to identify technologies to make collection and sortation of flexible packaging waste feasible and economically effective, as well as research into chemical recycling, which degrades the mixed plastics into monomers or basic chemicals to turn into new products.

Food waste, plastics and unnecessary packaging are big news right now, with the Government's 25 - year Environment Plan set to tackle plastic packaging with a promise to achieve zero avoidable plastic waste by the end of 2042.

Yesterday in Orlando, Claudio Gemmiti explained to a packed hall at the Innovation Takes Root conference that the arrival of PῧrPod100 ™ has given consumers what they want — all the benefits in terms of single serve choice and quality without the petroleum - based plastic waste going straight into their garbage cans that has deterred so many consumers.

Every acre of land farmed using a black plastic system produces 100 - 120 lb of waste... Continued

Plastic straws and cotton buds could be banned across the country as part of the UK government's efforts to cut down on waste.

The environmental repercussions of using the K - Cups are enormous because of the amount of plastic waste coming from coffee pods.

Recycling company TerraCycle plans to expand its beach cleanup programs to collect up to 1,000 tons of plastic waste globally.

Holfeld uses 20 % less plastic bottles to blend their rPETeCO material — only 8 out of 10 waste plastic bottles used.

A significant amount of the plastic waste generated by hospitals is a flexible material of some sort, such as sterilization wrap or flexible packaging.

As public concern for unchecked management of plastic waste grows, national governments are responding with lofty goals to mitigate a looming environmental crisis.

For example, Colpac launched its Cookpack Hot Boxes and Compostable Ovenable Trays; Greenearth Food Packaging introduced its new range of biodegradable wooden food trays; James Cropper 3D Products debuted COLOURFORM ™, its plastic - free packaging, made from 100 percent renewable natural wood fibres; and OAL unveiled APRIL EYE, its intelligent date code verification system that cuts food waste in the supply chain.

As public concern for unchecked management of plastic waste grows, national governments are responding with lofty goals to mitigate a looming...

We try to cut down the amount of waste we produce — we've eliminated most of our paper towel use (it takes us a couple months to go through one roll now), and we wash and reuse resealable plastic bags.

«If we can get just 1 % of coffee drinkers to replace their plastic cup solutions with the high - quality coffee in our Tayst pods, we could reduce waste and divert up to 100 million pods away from landfills,» challenges Byrnes.

The news comes as scores of UK hospitality firms are beginning to change their policies on plastic waste, while some environmental campaigners are attempting to tax single - use plastic products in an effort to discourage their use.

Around 8.5 billion plastic straws are thrown out in the UK every year, May said, much of which winds up in oceans which contain some 150 million tonnes of plastic waste.

The UK government is launching a consultation on a deposit scheme that could see a refundable charge added to the cost of single - use glass, plastic, steel and aluminium bottles and cans in an effort to reduce waste and increase recycling.

The sustainability of plastic packaging has traditionally presented challenges.Up until recently, some of the most effective solutions when it comes to preserving food and reducing food waste have proved among the more difficult to recycle.

Rising governmental concerns with respect to growing plastic waste is leading to the development of sustainable — degradable, recyclable, or reusable — packaging solutions.

She will also set out a number of green proposals in a 25 - year plan for the environment including eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and a commitment to spend part of the Government's multi-billion annual overseas aid budget on international measures to cut plastic use.

The move comes as part of plans to protect rivers and oceans, and meet the UK government's 25 Year Environment Plan to eliminate «avoidable» plastic waste.

Oh, and it's nice to receive a resealable bag that's full versus a big plastic tub that's less than halfway full is just a complete waste of packaging.