New ways of designing and reusing the plastics.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) highlighted some innovations in its 2019 alternatives-to-plastics report, which focused on three categories: natural fibres from plants and animals; biomass-based, compostable, synthetic biopolymers; and re-usable, durable, non-plastic materials. The aim was to inspire businesses, entrepreneurs and researchers by providing concrete examples.
To tackle marine pollution, as highlighted by the UNEP's Clean Seas campaign, we need to find new ways of designing and reusing the plastics we cannot do without.
The hunt is on for sustainable alternatives to plastic.
When Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907, it was hailed as “the material of a thousand uses”. The production of syntheti
