January 20, 2011
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Air & Climate Newsletter January 20, 2011 |
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Sustainable Packaging is a Growing Sector in China
As businesses in China wake up to the importance of environmentally sustainable packaging one UK firm is celebrating its first export orders of a pioneering new degradable polythene additive. CFN Packaging has sold two consignments of Biothene(R) - a new additive developed to tackle the problem of discarded bags and packaging - to China. The latest order was taken at the China International Degradable Plastics and Decomposition Materials Exhibition in Shanghai last week. CFN Packaging`s ... |
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Researchers develop wood that eats its own pollution
Researchers in Germany have developed a way to reduce unhealthy emissions from particleboard, which could make it a more suitable material for makeshift dwellings. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research have found a way to infuse particleboard with a chemical that "eats" emissions of formaldehyde, a chemical linked to health problems. Formaldehyde is commonly used as a component in adhesives used to glue particleboard together. The chemical, which is believed to be potentially carcinogenic when exposed to people over long periods, can also cause vision and respiratory ... |
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