Roadside litter campaign launched to protect wildlife
National Highways and partners have launched a campaign urging road users to bin their litter…
Tag: plastic bottles
“Bottled water contaminated with 240,000 nanoplastic pieces”
A study exposes widespread presence of nearly a quarter million invisible nanoplastics per…
New York state files lawsuit against PepsiCo for alleged plastic pollution
New York state is suing PepsiCo, alleging its role in plastic pollution along Buffalo River,…
Britons to get cash to return plastic bottles
The government has given the go-ahead to the deposit return scheme to tackle plastic waste
UK to launch ‘cash for plastic trash’ scheme
People will be paid to collect recyclable rubbish, including cans and plastic bottles
Petition grows against Coca-Cola as COP27 sponsor
The company has been labelled the world’s largest plastic polluter in the past
Aldi pays back customers for recycled plastic bottles
Customers are able to return plastic or glass bottles and aluminium cans in exchange for…
EU registers initiative calling for deposit scheme for plastic bottles recycling
If the organisers receive one million statements of support within a year from at least seven…
Australia grants $16.5m for its ‘biggest’ PET plastics recycling facility
It will have the capacity to recycle the equivalent of an estimated one billion PET bottles a…
Plastic waste gets a vanilla flavour!
Scientists have developed a method to upcycle PET plastic into vanillin, a flavour compound…
