Sentences with phrase «waste plastic rise»

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.

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

Study Finds Rising Levels of Plastics in Oceans Photo Some eight million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world's oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the next decade unless nations take strong measures to dispose of their trash responsibly, new research suggests.

A rise in plastic food packaging is failing to reduce Europe's growing food waste problem, and in some cases may even be fueling it, according this study prepared by the Institute for European Environmental Policy for Friends of the Earth Europe and Zero Waste Europe.

10 or 15 years ago, the city of Tacoma was running a small power plant that had been converted to burn a mixture of pulverized coal, hog fuel (lumber waste that was too low quality to make paper from) and RDF (refuse derived fuel, basically the lightweight plastic and paper shreds from garbage that would rise up and over in an air separator) in a fluidized bed combustor.

A rise in plastic food packaging is failing to reduce Europe's growing food waste problem, and in some cases may even be fueling it, according to new research.

For some perspective on just one aspect of the waste issue, it's estimated that globally, about 480 billion plastic bottles were purchased last year, and that figure is rising, with some projections saying that by 2021, we may be buying more than 580 billion plastic bottles per year, and only a fraction of that is being recycled.

With the equivalent of one truckload of plastic trash being dumped in the world's oceans every minute, and consumption expected to rise significantly over the next few years, plastic waste management is an urgent issue.

But this glitch aside the city has seen its plastic waste tonnage drop by about 10 % since starting the public education exercise and the number of people now drinking tap water has risen by roughly the same degree.

But with the rise of cheaply mass - produced plastics, increased levels of consumerism, and planned obsolescence in many products, our modern culture now creates waste on an unsustainable scale.