Plastics are fantastic materials. Molded into any shape, colour and texture, about 60% of the fabrics we wear are plastics, according to the UN Environment Programme. We have covered nearly every ...

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“Only less than 2 per cent of single use plastic coffee cups are recycled worldwide,” says Rossau. The pilot did not only require building machines, deciding where to place them and creating ...

The author found that around 64% of waste-cutting pledges were limited strictly to catering settings, and included banning plastic coffee cups and food containers. Only 6% of the measures aimed to ...

and plastic coffee cups and lids. Chile, Kenya, India and New Zealand have also imposed restrictions on some single-use plastic products, such as bags or cutlery. But there is a warning that the ...

Did you know almost 300 billion plastic coffee cups have made their way to rubbish dumps around the world? These cups were not recycled, because they were made from a mixture of paper lined with ...

New research shows Aussie discard more than 9.7 billion pieces of single-use plastic each year. Our coffee cups and plastic bag waste alone lined up end to end would extend a whopping 1.47 million ...

WA is set to phase out disposable plastic coffee cups and plastic lids for hot drinks this year. There is also a proposal to extend a ban on microbeads in rinse-off personal care products to all ...

The ban will see commonplace items such as coffee cups and takeaway containers banned in several states as crackdowns on single-use plastic progress. From September 1, Queensland, South Australia ...