Recycled Plastic Milk Bottles Are Becoming Roads in South Africa
The world is catching on to the idea of recycling single-use plastics to make roads. One of the…
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Peruvian Innovators Create Biodegradable Plates Using Banana Leaf
Led by a pair of Peruvian entrepreneurs, Chuwa Plant is a new company aiming to commercialise and manufacture…
Hug It Forward Has Built Over 300 Bottle Schools in Central America
While single-use plastic might well be one of the biggest blights on our planet, there are people out…
Producing ‘New’ Plastic May Soon Become a Thing of the Past
What there was a way of solving the plastic crisis without getting rid of plastics? Or contributing further…
Boyan Slat’s Ambitious Ocean Cleanup Project Finally Tastes Success
It’s been a long journey for young Dutch inventor Boyan Slat and his ambitious Ocean Cleanup project. In…
UK Supermarket Chain Sainsbury’s Bans Plastic Fruit and Veg Bags
Sainsbury’s, one of the largest supermarkets in the UK, has just introduced a country-wide ban on the use…
France Becomes First Country to Ban Plastic Plates, Cups and Cutlery
As of 2020, the approach France takes to single-use plastic will be much tougher. Nearly all plastic cups,…
Edinburgh Entrepreneurs Have Created World’s 1st Biodegradable Reusable Bottle
Single-use plastic bottles have become the bane of the planet and are the biggest polluter of our oceans. …
Miniwiz’s Pop-up Shop Lets Customers Exchange Rubbish for Recycled Products
There are those big-wigs out there that use the phrase “I’ll pay with plastic,” meaning, “put it on…
The Netherlands is Testing a Bike Path Made of Recycled Plastic
The Netherlands PlasticRoad project launched last year uniting a trio of European companies to test a bike path…