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First high-heat plastic air intake manifold with integrated charge air cooler in production on hybrid sports car
2014-07-18 12:30:36| Green Car Congress
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WRAP data shows rise in UK plastic bag use
2014-07-16 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
New data from the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) has shown an increase of 3.2% in single-use thin-gauge bags by UK supermarket customers in the UK, representing 8.3 billion bags in total.
First of Kind Map Reveals Extent of Ocean Plastic
2014-07-15 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: When marine ecologist Andres Cozar Cabaas and a team of researchers completed the first ever map of ocean trash, something didn't quite add up. Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans. But plastic production has quadrupled since the 1980s, and wind, waves, and sun break all that plastic into tiny bits the size of rice grains. So there should...
Coca-Cola plant-based refillable plastic cups to be used at US SeaWorld parks
2014-07-14 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has introduced the first refillable plastic cup made from plant-based materials at all SeaWorld and Busch Gardens parks across the US.
New Chicago law ditches plastic bags in 2015
2014-07-11 22:26:40| Grocery - Topix.net
According to National Geographic , somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year.
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