Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Plastics
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In a better mould
German researchers have hit upon a novel technique that converts waste plastics into multiple gains for steel industry
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Wonder wood
Wood which is aesthetically pleasing and exceptionally resistant can now be made out of recycled polystyrene
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Quite resistant
A high-molecular silicon plastic that can withstand temperatures ranging between 400-500
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Frozen for reuse
The process of cryo-recycling of plastic wastes has recently been developed by Harry Rosin, director of the Hygiene Institute in Dort- round, Germany. The method uses freezing rather than
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Friendly plastic
A K NANDA, a young scientist from Berhampur in Orissa, has developed a commercially viable process for production of bio-degradable plastic sheets and films using starch. The polythene films
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BLAZING ISSUE
To prevent a recurrence of the devastating fire 1hat broke out in west Delhi on June 6 last year, the Delhi High Court said in a recent ruling that the ban on trade in poly vinyl chloride
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Advent of plastic electronics
'Plastic electronics', which behave like semiconductors, could become cheap, flexible alternatives to silicon-based electronics for certain products, according to Dutch scientists. These substitute
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Plastic ploys
Dendrimers are about to revolutionise the age of polymers
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Plastic eaters
THERE may finally be an answer to disposing off the scourge of environment: plastics. Researchers at the National institute of Bioscience and Human Technology in Japan have homed in
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Consistent colour
A new method of painting plastics while they are being moulded guarantees uniformity of shade