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Uma pesquisadora brasileira desenvolveu uma embalagem comestível que prolonga a validade dos alimentos. Composto de amido de mandioca e açúcares, o produto está sendo estudado desde o início deste ano e já despertou o interesse de importantes empresas do setor alimentício. Na corrida pelos produtos inteligentes e biodegradáveis, considerados como …

The publication is part of efforts to raise farmer awareness ahead of the expected introduction of a Statutory Producer Responsibility (PR) scheme. The main thrust of the scheme should see non-packaging plastic producers and importers given responsibility for funding collection of the waste, with every farm across the country given …

Engineers at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) are busy installing a new woodchip-powered generator, which will be more than 80% efficient when running at full power. The woodchip-powered combined heat and power plant (CHP) will generate up to 100kW of electricity, enough to meet the instantaneous power demands of …

India has evinced interest in the ‘‘Recycling Centre Concept‘‘ offered by The Netherlands-based World Wide Recycling that focusses on reusing waste fractions for new products and electricity generation. The Hindu newspaper reports that when fully developed, this waste management concept turns more than 80 per cent of existing waste streams …

AHN reports that a large Hong Kong supermarket chain reduced its plastic bag use by 30 million bags. ParknShop opened its no-bag day Wednesday providing biodegradable plastic bags in lieu of regular plastic containers. The campaign to make shopping a more environment-friendly activity was further boosted by a proposal to …

Shenzhen City in south China‘‘s Guangdong Province is considering to pass an ordinance to end free use of plastic shopping bags supplied by retailers. Xinhuanet reports that the city‘‘s legislative affairs office has been soliciting opinions on a revised draft of an environmental protection regulation that would end the three-decade-long …

Centralised treatment of food waste using methods such as in-vessel composting or anaerobic digestion can cause more greenhouse gases than household treatments using Food Waste Digesters (FWDs), says an environmental study. MRW reports that the study titled Comparison of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Centralised and Household Treatments of Food …

Do alto posto de um dos maiores índices de reciclagem mecânica de plásticos pós-consumo do mundo (16,5%), a despeito da falta de um sistema eficiente de coleta seletiva, o País agora busca opções para ampliar a taxa de reutilização e também de alternativas que permitam aproveitar os resíduos plásticos presentes …