Current plastic films do a great job of keeping food fresh while it sits on the supermarket shelf, but lately we're seeing advanced forms of these materials that might play more than a passive role in ...

Spanish clothing brand Mango has vowed to eliminate the use of about 160m plastic bags per year in its supply chain. It will replace the plastic bags in its packaging with paper bags and claims it is ...

The Spanish retailer’s goal, in collaboration with its suppliers, is to progressively eliminate all the plastic bags it uses to distribute products throughout its supply chain. Mango said this will ...

Dr Anjum Nawab, a Pakistani scientist serving as assistant professor in Karachi University, on Monday claimed to have made bio-plastic with mango kernel. It is easily dissoluble and has no threat to ...

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There’s a soap dish for sale at a beauty products shop in São Paulo, Brazil. An off-white disc with a smooth, rounded shape like a river stone, it is just one of millions of plastic soap dishes on ...