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Study outlines how to succeed with refillable packaging
May 13, 2009 |
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Reusable and recyclable packaging are shooting up the news, public, and political agenda, and increasingly can offer a cutting edge to the growing number of environmentally-conscious consumers. But what makes a refillable ...
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New research will seal the future of green packaging
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Bath and the food & drinks research centre at Campden BRI are leading a project to create a new high speed environmentally-friendly packaging process that will use recycled ...
Call for doctors to lead the way on 'greener' healthcare
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Clinicians have an important role to play in reducing hospital waste and should not be discouraged by lack of knowledge or the threat of legal liability, according to a paper published on bmj.com today.
Use of nanomaterials in food packaging poses regulatory challenges
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 25, 2008 |
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[B]Report uses product scenarios to examine the oversight and regulatory pathways to commercialization[/B] Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs), which contain novel properties that offer potential benefits for use in foo ...
'Self-healing' polymer may facilitate recycling of hard-to-dispose plastic
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in The Netherlands are reporting development of a new plastic with potential for use in the first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards, electrical insulation, and other electronics ...
Plastic waste: better to burn?
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Burning plastic can give off less carbon dioxide than burying it, scientists claim in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.
Hormone-mimics in plastic water bottles -- just the tip of the iceberg?
Mar 26, 2009 |
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In an analysis1 of commercially available mineral waters, the researchers found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water. What's more, these chemicals are potent in vivo and result ...
Father's Day Gift? Special Packaging for Genes in Sperm
Jun 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It was long believed that conception does not involve a meeting of equals. The egg is a relatively large, impressive biological factory compared with the tiny sperm, which delivers to the egg one copy of ...
Gene packaging tells story of cancer development
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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To decipher how cancer develops, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators say researchers must take a closer look at the packaging.
'Smart Trash' concept could reinvent recycling with a cash incentive
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Envision a distasteful trip to the curb to take out the trash as a pleasant -- and profitable -- stroll. Some juiceless batteries - those are good for a few cents. An old keyboard might fetch ...
Wine in a box? Think 'good' not 'gauche'
Jun 04, 2009 |
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In a surprise discovery that may help boxed wine shake off its image as a gauche alternative to bottles, scientists in Canada are reporting that multilayer aseptic cartons (a.k.a. ‘boxes’) may help reduce ...
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