Reusable plastics: (re)filling the bill
Planet
Planet
5 min
Back to basics for plastics
Waste management, and the management of plastic waste in particular, is a crucial issue for the coming years. What if polymers, which are too often vilified, were a solution rather than a problem?...
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Planet 3 minPlastics + 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...
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Planet 2 minDrinking 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....
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Planet 3 minThe 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...
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Planet 1 minBetter 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...
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Planet 4 minZero 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...