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Plastic waste poses a significant challenge for the environment, particularly smaller plastic products that are often difficult to recycle or collect. In this study, we developed a fully biodegradable...

In January 2018, the European Commission adopted the first EU monitoring framework for the circular economy, aimed at tracking the progress of the EU and the Member States. Following the launch of the new...

The aim of this policy framework for biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics is to provide better understanding of the challenges and benefits that stem from their use. It also sets out the conditions...

The Commission has adopted new rules specifying how EU Member States must calculate and report on the reduction in their consumption of single-use plastic food containers...

Packaging and small plastic items make up nearly 80% of this plastic waste. This new European Environment Agency report is the first Europe-wide study of its kind taking...

Compostable and biodegradable plastics are growing in popularity but their environmental credentials need to be more fully assessed to determine how they can be a part...

The project BIO-PLASTICS EUROPE published the first public deliverable, a handbook on how bio-based and biodegradable plastic waste impacts existing waste management systems. It was...

Accumulation of plastics in the Earth's oceans is causing widespread disruption to marine ecosystems. To help mitigate the environmental burden caused by non-degradable plastics, we have previously developed...

Plastic degradation by biological systems with re-utilization of the by-products could be a future solution to the global threat of plastic waste accumulation. Here, we report that the saliva of Galleria...

Integrating catalytic CO 2 reduction with bioconversion could substantially advance carbon capture and utilization and mitigate climate change. However, the state-of-the-arts are limited by inefficient...