Legislative amendments to completely ban the use of polyethylene bags and sacks in Armenia came into force on January 1. YEREVAN, January 4. /ARKA/. Legislative amendments to completely ban the use of ...

Some tea bags release billions of tiny plastic particles when immersed in hot water, creating tea that can harm your health and increase your risk of cancer—but not all tea is equally as dangerous.

Powered by stolen electricity, black-market polyethylene, and misappropriated government funds, illegal plastic factories in the rural outskirts of metropolitan cities are quietly expanding, turning ...

Dr. Tarun Anumol, from Agilent Technologies, said plastic bags are commonly made from the polymer polyethylene, which depending on the conditions can take up to 1,000 years to fully break down in ...

In 1964, Dow Chemical wanted to acquire the rights to the Minigrip bags to sell in supermarkets using Down’s polyethylene bags. And with this marriage, the Ziploc bag as we know it was born.

Polyethylene plastic has a wide variety of ... and bottles but it's also used for bags and food containers. This plastic is dense and is very slow to break down in nature as it is highly resistant ...