You may have bought a drink recently and noticed something odd: the once removable cap is now tethered to the bottle by a small strip of plastic. Manufacturers have included the tether on bottles sold ...

March 1, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google With the recycling industry in flux, the rules surrounding recycling plastic aren’t always a given (at least, in ...

BOTTLE MAKERS TO TETHER CAPS TO BOTTLES. SPONSORS OF THIS PROPOSAL SAY SINGLE USE PLASTIC CAPS ARE EASILY SEPARATED FROM BOTTLES, REDUCING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THEY’LL BE RECYCLED. A NUMBER OF STUDIES ...

If you're old enough, you remember the litter-prone, pull-off metal tabs on aluminum cans. And you probably recall when they were replaced by the push-down versions that stay attached to the can. Now, ...

This is a recycling story with literally countless twists and turns. According to researchers at Florida Institute of Technology, putting many thousands of self-contained, bagged bottle caps in select ...

Plastic bottles, on the other hand, are usually made from a different kind of plastic called polyethylene terepthalate, or number one and PET. And polypropylene, that number-five plastic bottle caps, ...

Costas Velis consults for organisations active in the waste, resources and circular economy sphere. He receives funding from UKRI, GCRF, NERC, ESRC, BBRSC, Royal Academy of Engineering, British ...

Wondering how to turn all of those plastic bottle caps running rampant in your household into a green, planet saving endeavor? Well, lucky for you, and for marine life everywhere, Aveda has come up ...

It is difficult to turn one's back on an appeal for help, especially one made on behalf of a gravely ill child. People want to help; their hearts do go out to others, no matter what their own ...

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