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Hated plastic 'clamshell' packaging will be scrapped, say industry insiders
...to conquer the world of consumer electronics. But the hard-to-open casings of plastic, considered by many to be toxic, could start to disappear soon, according to...Posted: 08 April 2008
Plastic pollution in oceans worse than imagined, says oceanographer
...plastic bags last summer, a number of towns across the UK planned their own plastic bag bans. Supermarkets like M&S have started charging for plastic carrier...Posted: 05 March 2008
HP kicks off new eco label with recycled printer
...printer? Not as in refurbished and resold, but as in made from recycled plastic? Hewlett-Packard is introducing a new green-focussed label for some of its...Posted: 22 May 2008
Plastics less than fantastic, says DEFRA
...footprints. For instance, there has been considerable progress made in bioplastics in recent years. Not only are these derived from renewable biomass -- stuff...Posted: 13 February 2008
New tech turns CO2 into biodegradable plastic
...materials company from the US, has devised a way to make biodegradable plastics from carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. The plastics it intends to make...Posted: 13 November 2007
4 recycled bins for your recycling rubbish
...recycling. But the question is: why should that bin be made from nasty plastics or increasingly rare metals? There are alternatives out there, and some are...Posted: 27 June 2008
Wonderland: disappearing dresses and plastic bottles that make flowers grow
...College of Fashion have teamed up to create dresses that dissolve in water and plastic bottles that melt into a compound that can be used to grow seeds...Posted: 16 June 2008
Photos: what plastic recycling numbers mean
...consumers. Hormone-altering substances seep from drinking bottles. Great plastic garbage patches swirl in the ocean. And plastic bits have been found to...Posted: 13 June 2008
Photos: recycled guitars by Simon Lee
...body are pretty rare this side of Fisher Price. And ones made from recycled plastics are even rarer than rocking horse poo, but that hasn't stopped green UK...Posted: 09 June 2008
M&S bottom with Lidl on packaging
It's not just packaging -- it's M&S packaging. New research from the Local Government Association gives M&S poor marks for its product packaging, and finds that overall the supermarkets have slightly reduced the amount of packaging they're sticking us with.Posted: 29 May 2008
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