Where experts answer twenty questions in thirty minutes about plastic, alternatives-to-plastic and all things circular. #3 Hair’s what’s happening! , Andrew and Zsofia Kollar – Founder of Human Material Loop – get into what is ‘waste’ and the benefits of hypo-allergic, strong as steel, climate-positive high-performance textiles from human hair! Listen on …
The Substitution Principle When an alternative material, substance or chemical becomes available it must be substituted. Substitution is costly and complex and will require incentives coupled with strict regulation. The United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA5) will meet in Nairobi on 28 February – 2 March 2022 to negotiate and agree on a new legally …
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World leaders at COP26 will be looking at ways to reduce CO2 emissions to achieve their net carbon zero commitments with ambitious pathways across power generation, transport, agriculture, homes and heavy industry. However, the manufacturing sector – and particularly plastics manufacturing – seems to have been ignored. The production of plastics currently accounts for approximately …
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a report last week which puts a figure on the true cost of plastic to society, the environment and the economy – a not-insignificant $3.7 trillion a year and rising. To give you a perspective on how large a sum that is, it’s approaching the annual GDP of Germany, …
Apologies for the click bait headline, but what really caught our attention this month was the call for a global treaty to end production of ‘virgin’ plastic by 2040. The original article in Science Magazine is co-authored by fourteen scientists from respected institutions across the world who are calling for a binding global agreement to …