Microplastics are found everywhere from table salt, drinking water and food, to the deep seas, far deserts and most remote mountains. While it’s not surprising to find plastics and microplastics in urban environments where they’re used every day, their appearance in uninhabited corners of the planet is deeply disturbing. These tiny plastic fragments, many consisting […]
The NSW government has recently passed new legislation to deliver on its commitment to ban certain plastics and to make significant strides to address plastic waste. The Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Act seeks to ban many single use plastics as well as many other problematic plastics by the end of 2022. The government claims
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Plastics have become part of our everyday life. They are inexpensive, convenient and used in many applications. However, the single-use and disposable nature of many of these plastics contributes to a linear, wasteful, take-make-dispose economy. Ever since South Australia’s initiative to ban lightweight plastic bags in October 2008, the other States began to follow suit:
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Oil spill is considered to be one of the most severe form of pollutions to the ocean, and cases of it are often labelled as environmental disasters. However, plastic resin pellet, more commonly known as nurdles, is a form of microplastic used for the production of plastic products, and cases of them contaminating the ocean
According to a new study, a chemical called phthalates (PFAS) in plastic food packaging and various consumer goods kills 91,000 to 107,000 elderly people each year in the United States. This study, published in the Environmental Pollution on October 12, 2021, outlines the risks of phthalates in food packaging, but these chemicals can be used
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World famous investor Warren Buffet recently remarked that, for the plastics recycling industry, the COVID-19 pandemic could be likened to a tide going out, exposing the previously hidden and deep rooted structural problems of the entity. This was demonstrated by the reaction of plastic manufacturers toward the rapid decrease in oil price caused by COVID-19
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