Ocean waste, damaged marine life, barges adrift with unrecycled plastics and clogged landfills—all are indicative of the plastics problem—or what might be better described as a plastics contradiction. With waste piling up, there has been a surge in interest for more traditional packaging alternatives, those materials that plastics replaced over the last few decades—paper, glass […]
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In natural conditions, plastics are nearly indestructible, and yet they are discarded worldwide on a large scale: the world produces around 359 million tonnes of plastics each year. The main issue is not with plastic as a material, but with our linear economic model: goods are produced, consumed, and then disposed of. This model assumes
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Another big contributor to a lot of landfills is clothing. A lot of clothes are made from nylon which takes a very long time to biodegrade. Because of this, it’s extremely important that different materials are explored in order to create a more sustainable way to create clothes. Plastic items such as water bottles, plates,
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The plastic crisis is one that’s been rising exponentially throughout the several years. Because of this, it’s vital that alternative materials are to be looked at in order to find a solution for this issue. Several Japanese beverage vendors have recently moved to abandon the use of plastic bottles, replacing them with aluminium cans in
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With lockdown driving us to use restaurant home delivery, what’s happening to all those plastic takeaway containers? -They’re all being recycled. There are different ways to resue the plastics that end up in landfills, however this all depends on what material is being used. Generally, many plastic food containers are made of a material known
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Plastics was once declared to be the future. While this is true, there has also been detrimental impacts that plastics have had in the environment today. An estimated 500 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated each year, as of 25th July 2021 and the majority of this ends up in the Ocean. There were
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