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Study outlines how to succeed with refillable packaging

Other Sciences / Other

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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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Use of nanomaterials in food packaging poses regulatory challenges

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 25, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

[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 ...


The Australian town of Bundanoon pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable ones

Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 8

An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.


Hormone-mimics in plastic water bottles -- just the tip of the iceberg?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 7

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

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(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 ...


New research will seal the future of green packaging

New research will seal the future of green packaging

Chemistry /

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Gene packaging tells story of cancer development

Biology /

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To decipher how cancer develops, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators say researchers must take a closer look at the packaging.


Wine in a box? Think 'good' not 'gauche'

Wine in a box? Think 'good' not 'gauche'

Chemistry / Other

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

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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Motorola's green phone has a great price

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 4

At least one of Motorola's new phones will appeal to consumers searching for "green" products.


Paper from sugar cane saves trees and money

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to make paper more easily and cheaply from bagasse, the fibrous sugar cane waste from sugar production, than from trees has been discovered by a Queensland University of Technology researcher.


Tessera wins patent dispute with chipmakers

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Tessera Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it won a patent dispute over small-format semiconductor packaging products, with the International Trade Commission issuing a cease-and-desist order against rivals Motorola ...



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