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Plastic Matters July 2020 |
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Indian 16-year-old girl is turning plastic bottles into warm clothes for the poor. By Roshni Chakrabarty What can you do at the age of just 16? Devika Chhabra is tackling the twin issues of environmental degradation and poverty, and showing us that age doesn't matter if you really want to make a difference. |
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Can chemistry fix the plastic waste problem? By Marissa Luck The petrochemical industry is investing in chemical recycling technologies to reduce plastic waste. Such advancements will revert plastics back to their original chemical components, which will make it easier to recycle plastics, and also vastly cut the amount of plastics filling oceans and landfills. |
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The problem with turning to paper after the plastic ban. By Zoë Schlanger Here’s the catch, if banning single-use plastics drives an uptick in paper use, that will be swapping one massive environmental problem for another. Increasing single-use paper products will surely result in deforestation. |
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Indonesia Fashion Week designers use plastic waste as material. By The Jakarta Post One of the showcasing designers, Risza Novianty from fashion house SAO by Risza, uses recycled plastic bottles as the main material. The plastic bottles were combined with traditional woven cloth with natural colouring. |
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These eco-shoes are made with sargassum seaweed and plastic bottles. By Mexico News Daily A new line of eco-shoes—made with recycled plastic and sargassum—has been designed by the firm Renovare, which had already spent several years experimenting with PET plastic. |
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That’s all for now. Issued in public interest by ICPE Mumbai |  |