Tag: Bioplastics
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Swedish design makes castor oil cool
Dirk Winkel's slick desk lamp uses a bioplastic free of fossil fuel.
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New Biorefinery Could Turn Starbucks Coffee Grounds and Stale Muffins into Bioplastics
Researchers in Hong Kong are developing a biorefinery to turn the waste from Starbucks coffeehouses into bioplastics and more.
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United Arab Emirates Speeds Up Ban On Disposable Plastics
Original supposed to come into effect in a year, the ban will come into effect in 2012. It covers all disposable plastic products not made from oxo-biodegradable plastics from approved suppliers.
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01M OneMoment. A New Biodegradable Shoe Concept
A biodegradable show for (almost) all occasions. A cradle to cradle design inspired by ancient Amazon inhabitants. Lightweight, compact and multi-use- it's up to you what you do with it as long as you make sure you compost it at the end of its life.
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iPhone Cases Made from Agricultural Waste and Recycled Plastic
The next time someone says your iPhone case looks like you found it in the trash, you can take it as a compliment. But that's only if you've got a ReCase from Miniwiz, made from 100% recycled agricultural waste and post-consumer
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Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)
It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explores
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The Bioplastic Revolution: 9 Crazy, Cool Products Made from Plants Not Plastic (Slideshow)
The world's addiction to plastic is filling up landfills, clogging the oceans, and even becoming a food source for birds -- but finding another material that's as durable, heat-resistant, light, and useful hasn't been easy.
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The Bioplastic Revolution: 9 Crazy, Cool Products Made from Plants Not Plastic
The world's addiction to plastic is filling up landfills, clogging the oceans, and even becoming a food source for birds -- but finding another material that's as durable, heat-resistant, light, and useful hasn't been easy. One alternative: bioplastics,
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Odwalla "Plastic" PlantBottle Now Made With 100% Plant Materials
One-upping Pepsi's plant-based bottle scheduled to be piloted next year, the Odwalla PlantBottle is now at least 96 percent and up to 100 percent plant-based materials—and is still recyclable in existing facilities. It's only the Odwalla bottles
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Families Sue Chiquita for More Than 4,000 Murders in Colombia
Despite some efforts by Chiquita to clean up its act in recent years, its long history of human rights abuses is coming back to haunt the company. Chiquita is being sued by the families of more than 4,000 Colombians murdered
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The New Pepsi Challenge: Beating Coke to Produce A 100% Petroleum-Free Plastic Bottle
Pepsi unveiled a new bottle yesterday: the first of its kind, the company says, to be made entirely from plant materials, which include switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks.
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Heinz to Adopt Coca Cola's "PlantBottle"
Heinz explains more about the
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Biodegradable Plastic Venture Hits a Stumbling Block: The Recycling Industry
Danny Clark quit his communications job a few years ago to collaborate with microbiologists and polymer chemists to establish a company, ENSO Bottles, that would make recyclable and biodegradable plastic bottles. But since launching
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New from Fujitsu: A Compostable Mouse
Fujitsu, maker of the bioplastic computer and zero-watt computer monitor, has announced its latest: a mouse made with bioplastic instead of petroleum-based plastic, is attached to a cable made without PVC, and has a compostable shell.The
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Odwalla Juice Transitioning to 'PlantBottles' - HDPE Plastic From Plant-Based Materials
Starting in 2011, Odwalla will transition to "PlantBottle" packaging—an HDPE plastic bottle made almost entirely (at least 96 percent) from molasses and sugarcane juice.
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Is Noise Really Why SunChips Should Ditch Bioplastic Packaging?
In case you haven't heard already, those much-touted, supposedly 100% biodegradable bioplastic bags that SunChips rolled out a while ago are no more. Apparently the issue wasn't many of the genuine questions about
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Ask Pablo: Does This Compostable Plate Have To Go In The Compost? Can I Recycle It?
Image Source: Jason Tester Dear Pablo: Our café uses dishes by Ecoproducts. Each plate has "Compostable" and "Tree Free" embossed on the surface. Does this plate need to go into a compost? Or can it be thrown into a recycling bin? What happens if it
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Ford is Increasing Use of Non-Steel Renewable & Recyclable Materials
Image: Ford "In 2009, Ford reduced the amount of automotive-related plastics to landfills by nearly 30 million pounds" Making cars more fuel efficient, and eventually run 100% on clean and renewable energy, is a great goal. But in parallel, it is
