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EU restricts the use of plastic bags to protect the environment
Up to 200 plastic bags are thrown away every year by the average European, most of them after having been used only once. The tiny particles these bags are made of can enter water or even the food cycle. To reduce these risks, the EU wants to restrict the use of plastic bags. MEPs and the Council have agreed a deal, which the environment committee will put to a vote on 31 March, ahead of the ...
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Ban on plastic bags broadened in San Francisco
San Francisco’s unique plastic bag ban has been extended to include pharmacies operating five or more locations in the city, according to NBC. The ordinance went into effect in November, first banning grocery stores from giving customers non-biodegradable plastic bags. The stores must use recyclable paper bags, reusable bags, or bio-plastic bags made of corn or potato starch. Now the ban also ...
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Brown and Benn comment on daily mail wheelie bin campaign - comment update
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn have both responded to the Daily Mail’s campaign against “the wheelie bin blight”. The Daily Mail started a campaign last week to call on town halls to let council tax payers choose between wheelie bins, ordinary dustbins or biodegradable bags. Asked about the problem of bins littering Britain’s streets, Brown told the Daily ...
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Plastic bag industry criticises UN call for plastic bag ban - comment update
The United Nations Environment Programme has come under criticism from the plastic bag industry after calling for a world-wide ban on thin film plastic bags. Responding to the results of a UN report assessing marine litter, UN under secretary and UNEP executive director Achim Steiner said: “Some of the litter, like thin film single use plastic bags which choke marine life, should be banned or ...
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New bans on plastic bags may help protect marine life
China’s surprise crackdown on plastic bags, announced on Tuesday, will prohibit the production and distribution of ultra-thin bags beginning June 1. The ruling bans the manufacture, sale, and use of plastic bags under 0.025 millimeters thick and prohibits supermarkets and shops nationwide from handing out the sacks for free. With the move, China joins a growing list of regions, from San Francisco ...
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Daily Mail launches campaign against `monstrous wheelie bins` - update
The Daily Mail newspaper has launched a campaign to “stop monstrous wheelie bins engulfing our streets” called Not in My Front Yard. In today’s edition (18 June) of the Daily Mail, it devotes seven pages to the campaign and says that there is a “bin explosion” blighting “our streets and gardens”. The newspaper is calling on town halls to let council tax payers choose between wheelie bins, ...
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MEPs clamp down on wasteful Use of Plastic Carrier Bags
EU countries will be required to reduce the use of the commonest and most polluting plastic bags drastically under new rules voted by Parliament on Tuesday ""This legislation will create a genuine win-win situation"” said Margrete Auken (Greens/EFA, DK), who is steering the legislation through Parliament. “"We're talking about an immense environmental problem. Billions of plastic ...
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Holistic approach needed to reduce consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags
Reducing plastic carrier bag consumption in different EU Member States requires different approaches and combinations of measures, according to a new study. The authors studied consumption and littering levels across Europe in relation to national plastic bag consumption reduction policy options, and found that there is not one specific solution for both of these factors, nor a single solution ...
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Environment MEPs clamp down on wasteful plastic carrier bags
EU states would have to reduce the consumption of most common and polluting plastic bags by 80% by 2019, under draft rules backed by the Environment Committee on Monday. To this end, MEPs recommend using economic instruments such as taxes and levies, marketing restrictions or bans. Plastic carrier bag litter is a major environmental concern, known to affect water bodies and aquatic eco-systems in ...
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Sita trials commercial food waste recycling scheme
Sita has launched a trial commercial food waste collection and recycling scheme in South London. The new initiative, which began this week, collects food waste from businesses around Croydon and Wimbledon using a special vehicle with dual compartments for glass and food waste. Food waste from businesses is collected in biodegradable ‘kitchen caddy’ sized bags, which are then sealed. The ...
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Sherwin-Williams Takes Paint Quality to the Highest Level with New Sustainable Coatings and Colorant System
Sherwin-Williams is breaking new ground with the introduction of Emerald™ Interior and Exterior paints and ColorCast Eco Toners™ - the highest performing, environmentally responsible paints and colorants in the industry. Both Emerald paints and ColorCast Eco Toner colorants are zero VOC, offering an unprecedented combination of premium performance and environmental benefits. Emerald ...
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Wave of plastic bag bans expands across Americas in 2020
A wave of bans on plastic bags, and sometimes on plastic straws, has greatly expanded in 2020 when legislation will slash millions of dollars worth of resin sold and dent industry employment. In Mexico, where a plastic bag ban went into effect in 2020, producers have warned thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in economic activity would be lost. A similar ban also goes into effect in 2020 ...
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Global Biodegradable Polymers Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Biodegradable Polymers Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p092427/Global-Biodegradable-Polymers-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Plastic This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Biodegradable Polymers in thousand pounds by the following End-Use ...
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Global Biodegradable Polymers Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Biodegradable Polymers Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p092427/Global-Biodegradable-Polymers-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Plastic This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Biodegradable Polymers in thousand pounds by the following End-Use ...
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Microbes fully metabolize biodegradable plastics
Berlin, 16 August 2018 – Researchers at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) succeeded in an interdisciplinary study to demonstrate that soil microorganisms metabolically utilised the carbon in the PBAT polymer both for energy production and also to build up microbial biomass. The researchers used the biodegradable polymer PBAT ...
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Oxo-degradable plastics may not be as `green` as producers claim
Degradable plastics may not be as environmentally friendly as producers believe, finds research by Loughborough University backed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Producers of oxo-degradable plastics regularly tout it as being a solution to the plastic bag litter problem, claiming the plastic is 100% degradable or biodegradable. But Defra’s report asserts that because ...
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Bioplastic materials’ value propositions well reflected in European Parliament’s report on Plastics Strategy
EP report ties in with provisions for feedstock differentiation and use of biodegradable and compostable plastics recently adopted in Waste Directive and Packaging Directive Berlin, 13 September 2018 – The European Parliament’s report on the European Strategy for Plastics adopted today by the plenary testifies to the increasing acknowledgement and endorsement of the value ...
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