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Amazon shareholders approve plastic packaging cuts
Posted on June 2, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Near majority of Amazon shareholders (48.9%) have approved an As You Sow proposal at the company’s annual meeting last week, which called for plans to cut plastic used for its packaging. The shareholder resolution asked the world’s largest online retailer...
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Majority of Phillips 66 Shareholders Support Studying Shift Away From Virgin and Single-Use Plastics
Posted on May 25, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource A first-of-its-kind shareholder resolution challenging a major petrochemical company on plastics production received majority support (50.4%) from Phillips 66 shareholders at the company’s annual meeting last week. The resolution requests that Phillips 66 publish a...
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California Department of Justice Launches Unprecedented Investigation Into Plastics Industry
Posted on May 22, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsApril 28, 2022 - California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced this week a historic investigation into the role of fossil fuel and petrochemical industries in a “decades-long campaign of deception” about the harmful impacts of plastic pollution, and for causing...
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Why Do We Find It Necessary to Rank Threats to the Planet Against One Another?
Posted on May 22, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource On to waste management. Disposal routes for conventional plastics are lacking. These including recycling (only around 10% of plastics are recycled6), landfilling, or incineration. The largest contributor to climate change of those disposal strategies is waste incineration. Not only...
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New research eats through plastic waste – USA
Posted on May 3, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Scientists in Texas are working on a variant of an enzyme that can break down plastic in mere days. The discovery of this enzyme by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin could help with environmental pollution...
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Review finds packaging regulation fails to drive change
Posted on April 26, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations, Plastic Waste NewsSource Time is ticking to resolve the serious flaws that exist in the regime for managing packaging waste, a review of the National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) for Used Packaging Materials (UPM), released by the Federal Government, has found. National Waste and...
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What are the top 10 marine waste items? – Australia
Posted on April 21, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource More polystyrene is being collected from the nation’s largest waterways and marine environments than any other type of plastic, supporting a national government push to phase out its use in consumer products by the end of the year, according...
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Oops, cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea
Posted on April 20, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic & Wildlife, Plastic Waste NewsSource Many scientists worry that flashy efforts to clean plastic from the ocean do more harm than good. Some scientists think that cleaning up the open ocean is a futile, and perhaps even harmful, endeavor. Several marine biologists told Vox that...
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Woolworths rolls out compostable bags in SA – Australia
Posted on April 14, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource Woolworths is "growing greener" in South Australia as it launches new locally made compostable fruit and vegetable bags by Biobag, the first Australian state to do so, in a bid to help further slash single-use plastic waste. The switch has...
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SMX completes PCR plastics traceability trial – Australia
Posted on April 7, 2022 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste NewsSource ASX-listed company Security Matters (SMX) has successfully completed a trial for marking recycled plastics in a fully commercial industrial facility, which studied the impact of different feeding methods on final post-consumer recycled content (PCR). The successful trial, which comes as the...
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