The European project PROMICON issued five policy recommendations to support a new method for the production of sustainable ...

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His team is involved in many efforts to develop chemically recyclable, biodegradable, and overall more sustainable alternatives to today's plastic materials. He said that while many people ...

Biobased plastics are plastics that are made entirely or partially from biological resources such as sustainably grown biomass and bio-waste. Examples include bio-polyethylene from sugarcane or corn ...

People who drink loose leaf tea might be on to something: scientists in Spain have found evidence of plastic pollution getting into human cells after being leached from tea bags. Published in the ...

Not all tea bags shed them. We asked experts if it’s risky to use the ones that do. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Q: I’ve heard there are ...

Thailand has become the latest country to take on the global plastic waste crisis by banning imports of plastic waste. For years, the country had served as a key destination for plastic waste from ...

Montgomery County is considering a proposed change to its grocery-bag policy that would ban the use of plastic bags at most stores and double the tax on paper bags to 10 cents. The proposal ...

Alan suggests steeping the tea using stainless-steel tools or any other type of non-plastic strainer. You could also choose brands that offer biodegradable or plastic-free tea bags made from ...

Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (MOE), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China ...