The world is literally swimming in waste plastic. We produce around 300 million tons of the stuff a year, of which a mere 9% gets recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, oceans and inside poor creatures who mistake it for food (and usually die). So what to do? Well there may be a real hope on the horizon. A Finnish company called Olefy Technology claims that after 40 years of development and testing it can now recycle almost any…
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Evanesto – from plastic pots to compost lots
There’s just too much plastic in the world. We’re drowning in it. But an enterprising French company hopes to change all that with the invention of a compound called Evanesto. The enzyme based material is added to conventional PLA plastic at the manufacturing stage, which then turns it into something which can be composted in less than 200 days. Proper compost. The company, called Carbiolice, claim that the enzymes can be used for all forms of plastic packaging, tableware or…
Read MorePlastics from Carbon Emissions – carbon dioxide gets a second life as household plastics?
We use a lot of plastic. We also produce a lot of carbon dioxide emissions. Neither or these things are good but new research has discovered a way to to create plastics from emissions which may help at least one of those problems.
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