Tag: plastic
Less plastic waste from 2022: Amazon is switching to paper packaging
Monday 22 November 2021 Less plastic waste from 2022 Amazon is switching to paper packaging In recent years, environmental organizations have repeatedly accused Amazon of being jointly responsible for the…
Amazon announces it will remove plastic packaging from packages sent to France by the end of 2021
Inside packages, bubble wrap or plastic cushions will also be replaced with kraft paper, Amazon said. AMIT DAVE / REUTERS The online distribution giant Amazon will replace all its plastic…
Much more plastic: 25,000 tons of corona garbage have already ended up in the sea
The corona pandemic has led to a significantly increased volume of plastic waste worldwide. According to one estimate, around 8.4 million tons of plastic waste had been generated by the…
USA imported millions of second-hand plastic gloves – look
1/7 These pictures were taken during a raid on a factory in Thailand. 2/7 The Thai authorities raided a “production facility” for the first time last December, where used plastic…
Fatal accident – heavy plastic part crushes workers
A terrible accident at work occurred on Friday in the neighboring Allgäu near Memmingen (D). In a plastics processing company, a 20-year-old was crushed by a part weighing tons –…
High additional costs – plastic deposit: Smaller dealers call for help
It’s like a revolution: from 2025 there will be a deposit system for plastic bottles and beverage cans in Austria. Small Styrian grocers are demanding financial help – and a…
study attributes 100,000 premature deaths per year to phthalates in plastic
The presence of chemical compounds, called phthalates, in plastics, and found in foods and everyday objects (food, clothing, cosmetics, toys, etc.), could cause the premature death of 100,000 Americans each…
France bans plastic packaging for many types of vegetables
Consumers will only find cucumbers, potatoes, carrots, leeks, zucchini, aubergines and cauliflower on the vegetable shelf without plastic packaging. In the case of fruit, apples, pears, mandarins and oranges are…
Rule for fruit and vegetables: France bans plastic from supermarkets
Monday 11 October 2021 Rule for fruits and vegetables France bans plastic from supermarkets In France, around a third of fruit and vegetables are packed in plastic on the shelf.…
The list of fruits and vegetables that must be sold without plastic packaging in 2022 unveiled by the government
Bananas sold in plastic wrap in south London in January 2018. JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP Batches of apples or peppers sold wrapped in plastic will soon disappear from supermarket shelves.…
Plastic straw, the scourge of the oceans for centuries and centuries
AKATRE FOR “THE WORLD” If we are looking for a quintessence of videos summarizing our time and its absurdity, the one where we see a poor sea turtle with a…
Climate protection: EU supports the reduction of plastic waste
300 million tons of plastic end up in the oceans every year Around 75 states announced their support in principle for the project at a UN conference in Geneva on…