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Soft plastics in recycle bins often end up in landfills
By Sarah Douziech, Westerly NewsJune 18, 2009 12:00 AM
Plastic bags and other low-grade plastic film put in local curbside recycling collection bags or bins are difficult to recover and often end up in the landfill, according to a spokesperson for the recycling company the material ends up with in Nanaimo. (06.18.09) |
Plastic bottles
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
Plastic bottles will soon be banned from North Carolina landfills and benefits will accrue in both environmental and economic terms. (06.12.09) |
City Known for Its Water Turns to Tap to Lessen Trash
New York Times - United States
VENICE — In this hot and noble city, discarded water bottles float by gondolas on the edges of the canals and spill out of trash cans on the majestic Piazza San Marco. (06.11.09) |
Plastic Association Warns Against Degradable Materials
GreenerDesign.com - Oakland,CA,USA
The National Association for PET Container
Resources (NAPCOR) is urging manufacturers
of PET resin and products to avoid using
additives that make plastic
degradable. (06.01.09) |
Sailing
in Marin: Pulling apart the Plastic Vortex
- Sausalito's Ocean Voyages makes
a plan
Marin Independent-Journal - San Rafael,CA,USA
Its contents are as varied as the people and nations from where the stuff has
traveled, including plastic bags, to fishing nets, to tires, to discarded kids
... (05.31.09) |
Where do our recyclables go?
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth,NH,USA
One day, in a rush, I saw three of them in a clear plastic container. Quickly
flipping it over, I found the recycling triangle on the back, thought all was
... (06.01.09) |
TV dinners go plastic
Packaging Digest - Oak Brook,IL,USA
The change signaled a move to plastics by many packagers for various frozen and
nonfrozen food products. This year, Swanson is celebrating 50 years of TV ...
(12.01.03) |
Dan
Haifley, Ocean Backyard: Can the Pacific's
plastic wasteland be fixed?
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Project Kaisei is the name bestowed on a fledgling effort -- which has its skeptics
-- to capture plastic waste caught in giant swirling gyres in the north ... (05.30.09) |
Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'
AFP
Everything from flip-flops to plastic bags have been slowly broken down by the sun's rays into small particles, and ocean tides have meant much of it has settled in a spiralling pattern just below the ocean surface between Hawaii and the mainland United States. (05.24.09) |
Study: Plastic Bottles Increase BPA Levels In Humans
WBUR - Boston, MA, USA
A new study from Harvard University confirms commonly held concerns about drinking from hard plastic water bottles made with the chemical Bisphenol-A or BPA. (05.22.09) |
Ford Explores 'Suede' Fabrics Made From Pop Bottles, Nanotechnology, and More
GreenBiz - Oakland, CA, USA
Ford Motor Co., which is turning recycling plastic soda bottles into suede-like fabrics for vehicle interiors, is wading deeper into bio-based materials with soy-based rubber fillers and plastics that can biodegrade in 90 to 120 days -- compared to 1,000 years for conventional petroleum-based plastic. (05.22.09) |
Biodegradable plastic bottles now being shipped
Examiner.com - USA
Arizona-based ENSO Bottles, LLC is now producing plastic drinking bottles that will not only biodegrade in the dark, anaerobic environment of a landfill, the microbes that ingest it then create methane which can be captured and converted to energy, points out co-founder and president, Danny Clark. "When our bottles go into the landfill, the idea is that the bottled will break down and create methane." (05.21.09) |
Bill banning plastic-hardening chemical passes
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
By Ken Dixon HARTFORD
The Senate on Thursday approved legislation that would ban the use of a controversial plastic-hardening chemical called bisphenol-A in children's products and reusable drink containers. (05.22.09) |
'Gender-bending' fear over plastic drinks bottles
Daily Mail - UK, By Jenny Hope
Drink from plastic bottles can raise the body’s levels of a controversial ‘gender-bending’ chemical by more than two thirds, according to tests (05.22.09) |
Is this free plastic bottle safe for son?
AsiaOne - Singapore By Elysa Chen
IT WAS
free, but on hindsight, the gift was one
that housewife Serene Tan, 39, would rather not have taken the
trouble to collect. (05.18.09) |
Inexpensive
plastic used in CDs could improve aircraft, computer electronics
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
If one University of Houston professor has his way, the inexpensive plastic now
used to manufacture CDs and DVDs will one day soon be put to use in improving
the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones. (05.15.09) |
Coke
Unveils Bottle With 30 Percent Plant Material
Reuters - USA
By SustainableBusiness
Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) announced Thursday it will test a new plastic bottle in
North America that's partly made from sugar cane and moasses. (05.14.09) |
Biodegradable Cups May Not Be as Earth-Friendly as You Think
Washington Post - United States
These days, you can also find a number of plastic products -- not just cups but also plates, bowls and straws -- that trumpet their biodegradability. (05.14.09) |
Pumping up the value of recycled plastics
Cleantech Group - San Jose,CA,USA
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and the LaVergne Group have developed a closed-loop recycling process that is already finding high-value uses for discarded plastics. (05.08.09) |
Speak up about eggs
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
If that's not possible, then they should be in recyclable plastic. There is no reason for eggs to ever be Styrofoam cartons. (05.04.09) |
Cast away those soft plastic lures
Seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth,NH,USA
Soft plastic lures are causing harm to New England's inland fish supply, according to a study by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. (05.03.09) |
Adding waste plastic to fuel can boost power output of biodiesel
By Geeta
London,
In a new study, mechanical engineers at Iowa State University in Ames, US, have demonstrated how to boost the power output of biodiesel simply by adding waste plastic to the fuel. (05.03.09) |
Fixit: For plastic recycling, what's the difference?
Minneapolis Star Tribune - By KAREN YOUSO
Our recycler says plastic containers must have "a neck" to be recycled. Does that include pill bottles? Also, why do the No. 1 and No. 2 plastics have to have screw-top lids to be recyclable? (05.01.09) |
Plastic Hospital Tubing May Affect Heart Function, Taste
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
Researchers have discovered a possible cause for memory and taste loss among patients who undergo procedures such as heart bypass and dialysis - it may be the plastic tubing used to deliver intravenous fluids, also shown to affect heart function in lab studies using rats. (05.01.09) |
Consumers urged to collect plastic bottle caps
timesofmalta.com
GreenPak is calling on consumers to collect plastic bottle caps during the coming three weeks to deposit them in special bins at the GreenPak Earth Garden Festival being held on May 23r-24 at Ta' Qali.(04.28.09) |
Study: Soft plastic lures harm trout, salmon
VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife strongly encourages anglers to protect Maine's fish by changing from soft plastic ... (04.27.09) |
New plastic could save a heap of e-waste
DVICE
By Trevor Curwin
New plastic could save a heap of e-waste, by Trevor Curwin, for DVICE, Part of the SCI FI Online Network. (04.24.09) |
Stop the airplane plastic-cup orgy!
Chicago Tribune - United States
I'm talking about the onboard orgy of plastic cups, and if you fly, you've probably participated in behavior that would shame you in the grounded world. (04.24.09) |
Straining a Plastic Soup
- Long Beach Press (April
20, 2009) |
TED Video on plastic waste
- Elemental (April 3, 2009) |
Cornell Project collects plastics
- Washington Daily Times (April
9, 2009) |
Environmental groups warn about the
dangers of too much plastic
- Press of Atlantic city (March
12, 2009) |
Six firms stop sales of hard plastic
baby bottles
- San Francisco Chronicle (March
6, 2009) |
California Lawmakers propose bill that
includes ban on plastic and tax on
plastic bags
- San Francisco, CA (March 5,
2009) |
San Mateo, CA Considers ban on
polystyrene containers
- San Jose Mercury News (March
3, 2009) |
Setting sail on sea of disposable
plastic
- San Francisco Chronicle (March
3, 2009) |
Savings from biodegradable plastic can
power Canberra and more
- AzoM News (March 2, 2009) |
An Alternative To Plastic Containers
- CNET News, San Francisco (Feb
27, 2009) |
Need to Recycle Plastic Gift Cards?
- Austin, American Statesman (Feb
27, 2009) |
How Did The US Do in Rigid Plastics
Recycling Study?
- Chicago Tribune (Feb
27, 2009) |
GreenSpace: Say No To Plastics
- The Philadelphia Enquirer (Feb
10, 2009) |
More Bad News about BpA
- Eat Well Guide (February 10, 2009) |
The Dalai Lama encourages followers to
stop using plastic
- Times of India (January 14, 2009) |
A Life Without Plastics?
- Chicago Tribune (December 28,
2008) |
California Ocean Protection Council
proposes Ban on Polystyrene Packaging,
fee for use of plastic bags
- read press release (November
20, 2008) |
The World's Largest Dump
- Discover Magazine (July 2008) |
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- Treehugger.com (February 2008) |
Plague of Plastics chokes the Sea
- LA Times (August 2nd, 2006) |
Trashing the Oceans
- Thomas Hayden, U.S. News & World Report (November 4, 2002) |
