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Masdar, a green green oasis in the country of black gold
Planet 4 min

Masdar, a green green oasis in the country of black gold

Imagine a city of 50,000 inhabitants, with no cars, carbon dioxide or waste… in short, an ecological city of the future. Now imagine this city in a desert in the Persian Gulf, where temperatures can r...
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  • Recycled plastics for fashion victims
    Planet 3 min

    Recycled plastics for fashion victims

    At a time when corporate ethics and social responsibility are increasingly in vogue and the state of the environment has everyone worried, fashion designers, ready-to-wear stores, clothing manufacture...

  • Environment: an informed consumer is a wise consumer
    Planet 2 min

    Environment: an informed consumer is a wise consumer

    Faced with growing consumer demand for environmental information on the products they buy, governments, distributors, businesses and others are stepping up the drive to develop product environmental l...

  • Plastics + Sun = transport of the future
    Planet 3 min

    Plastics + Sun = transport of the future

    Whilst the aircraft Solar Impulse, propelled solely by solar energy, successfully made its first night flight on 07 July, the catamaran PlanetSolar is preparing for its first world tour on solar energ...

  • Drinking water: two plastic solutions to access a reducing resource
    Planet 2 min

    Drinking water: two plastic solutions to access a reducing resource

    Getting access to drinkable water is more and more of a problem for a major part of the human population in the world. Thanks to plastics, here are two easy, inventive and cost efficient solutions....

  • The second life of plastics
    Planet 3 min

    The second life of plastics

    Recycling and energy recovery: at the end of their lives, plastics are still full of resources provided, proactive policies enable them achieve their full potential, and abandoning them to landfill be...

  • Better Health from Clear Water
    Planet 1 min

    Better Health from Clear Water

    Ray Hammond, author of The World In 2030, had concluded his study warning us that one of the main challenges people would have to face would be the lack of drinking water. The plastics industry had sp...

  • Zero Energy Buildings: Opportunity for Plastics
    Planet 4 min

    Zero Energy Buildings: Opportunity for Plastics

    Starting in 2019 all new buildings constructed in the EU will have to produce on-site more renewable energy on-site than they consume. This is the result of a revision by the European Parliament of t...

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