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Plastic Matters September 2021 |
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How Circular Plastics can help reduce GHGs By Jill Martin In recent years, there has been a promising surge in awareness and drive towards devising a solution — from young inventors to collective organisations. But what if our work to reduce plastic waste in the environment and advance a circular economy went a step further to also tackle greenhouse gas emissions? |
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Analysis shows enzyme-based plastics recycling is more energy efficient. By Lednewsdesk An analysis by researchers in the BOTTLE Consortium, shows enzyme-recycled PET has potential improvement over conventional, fossil-based methods of PET production across a broad spectrum of energy, carbon, and socioeconomic impacts. |
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Recycling Plastics can now be easy and affordable. By Peter Edwards Researchers at the Department of Chemistry in Oxford University are developing technologies to make recycling plastics easy, clean and affordable – promoting a truly ‘circular economy’ for the material. |
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Is Flexible Plastic an economically viable recycling scheme? By WasteManagmentWorld.com Flexible Plastic Fund is incentivising the development of a circular model and infrastructure for flexible plastic packaging to be recycled back into plastic packaging. |
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India’s youth churn up powerful solutions to counter marine plastics By worldbank.org In partnership with the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, the World Bank invited youth across India to participate in a Student Entrepreneurship Challenge and take a deep dive into the problem of mismanaged marine plastic waste and bring innovative solutions to counter the tide. |
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Researchers from Hyderabad devise a low-cost, and efficient method to segregate plastic waste By News18 The heap of waste coming everyday has become one of the world’s biggest bane and to lessen the impact in some capacity, a group of researchers from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) have devised an affordably priced answer to the menace of sorting out plastic waste. |
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That’s all for now. Issued in public interest by Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment,
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