Telangana mulls one more plastics park near Shamshabad, first dry port in Medak  

Telangana mulls one more plastics park near Shamshabad, first dry port in Medak  

TGIIC Vice-Chairman and MD E. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy (third from left) with TAAPMA leaders at a conference in Hyderabad on Friday. | Photo Credit: Arrangement Setting up one more industrial park exclusively for firms focused on plastics to the south of Shamshabad airport as well as the State’s first dry port in Medak district’s Manoharabad … Read more

Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food

Consumer Reports has found that plastics retain a “widespread” presence in food despite the health risks, and called on regulators to reassess the safety of plastics that come into contact with food during production. The non-profit consumer group said on Thursday that 84 out of 85 supermarket foods and fast foods it recently tested contained … Read more

Micro and nano plastics in the atmosphere are polluting oceans! Here’s how

Micro and nano plastics in the atmosphere are polluting oceans! Here’s how

According to findings and research in the journal ‘Nature Reviews & Environment’ by an international team of researchers and experts from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Alferd Wegener Institute and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research investigated a new study of the atmosphere as a related cause of plastic pollution in … Read more

World Environment Day 2021: Plastics – A wonder to use but a nightmare in the refuse

World Environment Day 2021: Plastics – A wonder to use but a nightmare in the refuse

MLPs consist of a layer of plastic coated onto other materials such as foil or paper. By Rahul Chaudhary,  When Alexander Parkes presented the world’s first man-made plastic at the London International Exhibition in 1862, little did he know how significant his invention would go on to be. The plastic industry has grown by leaps … Read more