which accounts for about half of single-use plastic production. While biodegradable plastics currently account for a half percent of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced annually ...

“Plastic production, specifically, is warming the planet four times faster than air travel,” Valliant said. “In addition to its climate impact, it’s also contributing to air and water ...

which accounts for about half of single-use plastic production. The biodegradable packaging market was estimated to reach about $105 billion in 2024 with an expected annual growth rate of about 6% ...

It was found that 47 (45.6%) products incorporated plastic microbeads, including 44 (42.7%) products that exhibited polythene microbeads. Overall, a higher proportion of imported products exhibited ...

Microbeads were phased out by 2019, but progress, Walling said, is slow — and plastic production continues trending upward. According to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, plastic waste in ...

Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark discovered how to transform the pulp from sugar beets following sugar production into new materials. These materials include one that could resemble ...