Tag: plastic
Plastic and its pollution in figures
News Published on 11/17/2024 at 10:03 a.m. updated on 11/17/2024 at 10:03 a.m. Reading 3 min. By December, the world could benefit from the first global treaty to reduce plastic…
Biosourced, bioplastics, biodegradable: alternatives to plastic?
News Published on 11/11/2024 at 4:02 p.m. updated on 11/11/2024 at 4:02 p.m. Reading 2 min. Biosourced, biodegradable, compostable, with banana leaf or tomato skin: alternatives to petrosourced plastic are…
On the Atlantic coast, the little ants of plastic upcycling would like to save the ocean
News Published on 10/11/2024 at 4:02 p.m. updated on 11/10/2024 at 4:02 p.m. Reading 3 min. Waste in your living room? More and more associations or local artisans are starting…
The plastic bag will be so much cheaper when the tax is abolished
In 2020, the plastic bag tax was introduced to achieve an EU target on the consumption of plastic bags. In 2017, Swedes consumed 83 plastic bags per person per year,…
Stop opening plastic packaging like this
A great many products are packaged in plastic packaging, not least foodstuffs. Regardless of whether you buy chips, bread, sweets or something else, you will in many cases have to…
How long should you keep an open plastic water bottle? The deadline is very short
Water, this health ally, can be the cause of various pathologies if it is poorly stored. And consumption times are often very short… Dehydration, fever, headache, vomiting… These symptoms may…
Plan to phase out plastic water bottles at schools hits snag
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News A proposed plan to phase out single-use plastic water bottles in the new year at Thames Valley school board properties will have to overcome…
Merivirta brings a huge amount of plastic waste to Pääsäissaari | News in brief
The small island accumulates 50 times more plastic waste than Chile, whose coastline is more than 2,000 kilometers long. 17:03•Updated 17:05 Located in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean,…
Increased demand for plastic bags is expected – the tax will be abolished
The excise tax on plastic bags was introduced on 1 May 2020 and sales of the bags plummeted. Just over a month later, Ica and Coop stated that their sales…
Picking Italian oranges – living under a plastic tarp
In Calabria, Italy, the oranges ripen when it is darkest in Sweden. Major juice producers often source their oranges from this region. Most of the orange pickers in Calabria come…