Sentences with phrase «waste plastic»

While collecting waste plastic from the sea to recycle into new packaging can raise consumer awareness, it won't solve the problem.

This reminds the world's governments of their existing legal obligations to prevent waste plastic from entering the oceans, empowering civil society to insist on rapid compliance with international law.

His method also makes art creation widely available — while not everyone may be able to afford traditional art materials, we can all gather waste plastic.

Now Vilas Ganpat Pol at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has developed a technique to convert a mixture of waste plastics into micro-spheres of a form of carbon called carbon black.

University of Adelaide researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high - tech nanomaterial.

You don't have to play seek and find for lids to match several food containers and you don't waste plastic baggies.

Those tic - tac containers are a great way to keep my earphones and it does not waste the plastic box.

Educate: Visit local villages and present our educational resource packages regarding waste plastics in our oceans.

System for converting waste plastics into oil.

Countries such as China are prepared to pay high prices for recyclables such as waste plastic; mainly because they do not have readily available sources of virgin materials (no indigenous forests or oil supplies) and they have a large manufacturing industry that requires these products.

During 2013 Holfeld used 439,000 less waste plastic bottles to produce rPETeCO than they would have done had they used rigid PET.

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.

Bento lunch boxes are the latest craze in kids» lunch gear - kids love to see their food organized in the cute little compartments, and parents like that they can easily offer whole foods for their child's lunch without wasting plastic bags.

For instance, for my first story for The New York Times, I pitched a story on how plastic roads in India were solving the problem of both the battered and damaged roads, as well as improperly disposed waste plastic.

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To avoid this dilemma his expedition used Clean Mountain Cans, reusable human waste plastic drums developed for climbers in Alaska.

«So these projects [like Naturwall] utilize waste plastics and regain them, while offering functional and aesthetic designs.»

Last year, Chinese manufacturers imported 7.3 m metric tonnes of waste plastics from developed countries including the UK, the EU, the US and Japan.

Say goodbye to excess cleanup and wasting plastic baggies... This post is a method / hack post more than an actual recipe.

Looks like a foolproof method, but it's so unnecessary to waste a plastic bag like that.

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

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

It's easy to make at home, once you get the hang of it, and beats the store - bought kind because it is less expensive, doesn't waste plastic, and is hormone - free (and organic, if you buy organic milk).

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 journal Science concentrates its latest issue on making the most of the vast amounts of waste plastics, metal, water and sludge we produce.

I pack my daughter's lunch every day, and it feels like a pack a million containers in it because I don't want to waste plastic bags and I try not to use prepackaged foods.

At least if it was part of a collector's edition you'd get lots more cool stuff than wasted plastic.

We twist objects for rescue: waste plastics turn camouflage, natural resources provide energy and we use cosmetics to create new guises.

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.

Engineers at Iowa State University are using the waste plastic to improve the power output of biodiesel.

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.

They waste plastic, they waste product, and more often than not get spirited away to die an ignominious death in the darkness of guest - bathroom drawers in homes across the globe.