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Microplastics can be Released by Just Opening a Plastic Bottle

News - 20 Mar 2020

Image Credit: nito / Shutterstock.com Scientists at the University of Newcastle, Australia, have discovered that microplastics are released just by the action of opening a plastic bottle. These...

Coca-Cola: First Ever Plastic Bottle Based on Recycled Marine Waste

News - 17 Oct 2019

Coca-Cola has unveiled the first ever sample bottle made using recovered and recycled marine plastics, demonstrating that, one day, even ocean debris could be used in recycled packaging for food or...

15% Increase in Plastic Bottles Washing Up on Inaccessible Island

News - 2 Oct 2019

Image credit: Ethan Daniels / Shutterstock.com Inaccessible Island is an extinct volcano and world heritage site rising out of the South Atlantic Ocean. Most of the island periphery is sheer...

Researchers Turn Plastic Water Bottles into Prosthetic Limbs

News - 20 Aug 2019

Artificial limbs made out of plastic water bottles could save healthcare providers millions of pounds and help tackle pollution at the same time. An expert at De Montfort University Leicester...

Amcor Develops 100% Recyclable and Economical PET bottles for Beer Packaging

News - 8 Aug 2019

Amcor has adapted its design technology to develop the first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for pasteurized beer in Brazil. The company designed custom 600 milliliter containers for a...

Carbios Produces the First PET-Bottles Made With 100% Recycled Plastic Waste

News - 6 Mar 2019

CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a company pioneering new, bioindustrial solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, has announced that it has successfully produced the...

New Recycling Process to Ensure Profitable Second Lives for Future Plastic Bottles

News - 28 Feb 2019

A new recycling process has been developed by the researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This process involves the conversion of...

Nestlé & Danimer Scientific to Produce Biodegradable Water Bottles Made from PHA

News - 22 Feb 2019

Nestlé and Danimer Scientific has announced a global partnership to develop biodegradable bottles. Nestlé and Danimer Scientific will collaborate to design and manufacture bio-based resins...

Addition of Irradiated Plastic Water Bottles Could Reduce Cement Industry’s Carbon Emissions

News - 25 Oct 2017

Discarded plastic bottles could one day be used to build stronger, more flexible concrete structures, from sidewalks and street barriers, to buildings and bridges, according to a new study. MIT...

UCR Researchers Convert Glass Bottles into High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

News - 20 Apr 2017

A research group at the University of California (UCR), Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering has developed nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries, by simply using...