Sweden has long had a can and bottle deposit system that gives people money back when they recycle – since 1984 for aluminium cans, and since 1994 for plastic bottles. Each year Swedes recycle more ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

A growing pool of studies finds concerning levels of plastic and forever chemicals in our common food items and their packaging. Here’s what you need to know. Chick fil-A used to be my guilty ...

Now, thanks to a new study about the plastic chemicals found in food packaging, that sandwich is dead to me. A team of scientists and concerned citizens recently tested more than 300 unique foods ...

Polypropylene is a type of plastic used to make everything from yogurt containers to water bottles. It's easy to recycle and is one of the most popular plastics used today. You'll know a piece of ...

Coles, Woolworths and Aldi were partners of REDcycle, which, at its peak, was collecting millions of pieces of soft plastic every day from shoppers at 2000 supermarkets across Australia. The plastic ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

Scientists in South Korea have developed a new method of decomposing one of the world's most common types of plastic, BusinessKorea reported. The breakthrough could have major implications in plastic ...

Motivated by this knowledge, many households are looking for ways to reduce plastic use in their homes. Thousands of cookware, dishware, utensils, and other cooking products are made with plastic ...

plastic pollution, and sustainable disposal practices; adoption of standardized cleanup methods, as outlined in the Manual for Beach Litter Monitoring Program, to improve data collection and cleanup ...

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