For this idea we can reuse any plastic container, I reused a 4-litre laundry detergent container. It could also be done with a glass bottle or ... There are so many DIY recycling projects you ...

A new adhesive dissolves in alkaline solutions, making plastic recycling cleaner and more effective. This could greatly reduce waste and improve material reuse. A recent study highlights a new ...

Scientists at the University of Reading have developed a polymer adhesive that cleanly removes labels from plastic when ...

The main question was if 20 HK cents were enough of a reward for people to turn in their plastic bottles. “Today, the behaviour is not towards recycling, and we are trying to change that ...

So what can we do about it? Well, we can recycle some plastics. This is when we take plastic that's used for one thing, like a bottle and then make it into another, like a carpet. The more we ...

At the recycling facility, water and soda bottles made with PET are separated from the other plastics. Then, the PET plastic bottles pass through a machine that shreds them ... Even so, scientists are ...

Currently, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are the easiest plastic to recycle, but in the ... that was focused on establishing a reuse system for beverages — for water, beer, and ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

Plastic water bottles Water company Watsons Water has launched a new scheme to encourage people to recycle more. Download the Drops of Fun app and look out for one of the Green Point Smart Water ...