The initiative has been inspired by a European Union tax that requires member states to pay 800 pounds per tonne of plastic packaging waste that is not recycled. In Australian dollars, this means ...

For example, try shampoo or conditioner in a bar rather than from a plastic bottle. Or swap your bathroom and kitchen liquid hand soap for a bar of soap. If these are not possible, choosing refills is ...

In Plastic not Fantastic, Hayley - from BBC Three’s The Call Centre - road-tests a range of different products and routines to try to find realistic - and affordable - ways to live more sustainably.

Mark Miodownik explores our love/hate relationship with plastic, why we have ended up with oceans of waste blighting the environment and what science and society can do about it.

The processes are typical of those used in the printing and coating industry in that solutions of the active materials, dissolved in organic solvents or water, are applied to a plastic sheet by ...

“I think it’s really important that that new synthetic plastic is made from old materials, not from newly extracted fossil carbon.” Designing enzymes to digest other types of plastic waste ...

Eight million tonnes of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year. From our local beaches to the remote Arctic, it is choking our oceans and killing wildlife. And it’s getting worse. Without a ...