Sustainability
Plastics & environment
What plastics mean for the environment, climate and resources – with figures, not opinions.
What impact do plastics have on the environment, climate and resources?
Microplastics and marine litter, plastics in household waste, recycling, and the question of when reusable genuinely beats single-use: we answer with figures, studies and sources rather than opinion. And we write as a plastics processor – which means naming where our own material is part of the problem.
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12 December 2023
Plastic recycling – good or useless for the environment?
The RecyPac association was founded in Zurich on November 30, 2023. Stakeholders along the entire value chain have joined forces to establish a national, harmonized system for the collection and recycling of plastic packaging and beverage cartons in Switzerland. Not all environmental organizations support recycling. How useful is plastic recycling really?
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6 October 2021
Sustainability and laboratory consumables
In the past few decades, plastic consumables have found their way into laboratories, making laboratory work safer and more efficient.
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13 January 2020
Plastic packaging and climate protection – is zero waste the solution?
Plastic packaging has been coming under heavy criticism, with the call to stop using it or replace it with other materials growing loud. Major food companies and retail groups have already announced their intentions to reduce plastic packaging. How should this be assessed in light of the most pressing environmental problem – climate change?
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18 February 2019
The threat to the ocean: is it all plastic, or something else?
Beaches full of plastic garbage. Enormous blankets of plastic in the ocean. We see these pictures on a daily basis. Is plastic the main problem?
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22 August 2018
Microplastic – where does it come from? What can be done?
We constantly see images of beaches filled with rubbish. However, it is not just large plastic parts that get into the environment but also small, so-called microplastic.
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5 December 2017
Plastics in municipal waste: what are the recovery options ?
In Switzerland, between 175,000 and 212,000 tons of plastics are disposed of with municipal waste per year. What is to be done with these plastics? An exciting discussion has flared up on this subject. The FOEN (Federal Office for the Environment) held a conference on 14 November 2017.
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20 September 2017
Marine litter – Plastic in the oceans
Who hasn’t seen the pictures of plastic waste on the beaches and in the water. Known as marine litter, politics and industry are addressing this problem. We processors have also our share of responsibility, and can make a contribution to improve the situation.
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How plastic packaging helps to reduce food waste
In Europe, 88 million tons of food is being thrown away because it went bad. What role plastic does plastic packaging play in this context? The Austrian organisation denkstatt GmbH – sustainable thinking – has done some research with regard to this question inn 2014.
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