Tag: plastic
LHC tells govt to legislate for ban on plastic products
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has given the Punjab government four weeks to come up with a strategy regarding a ban on single-use...
PFA issues SOP for plastic bottle industry
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Sunday issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the plastic bottle industry.
Only food grade plastic bottle should be...
Degrading plastics emit greenhouse gases
Need another reason to hate plastics piling up in the environment?
A study in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday found that degrading plastics emit...
Starbucks to eliminate plastic straws by 2020
Global coffee giant Starbucks announced that it will eliminate all plastic straws from its 28,000 stores by 2020, becoming the latest corporate giant to...
Last straw for Mumbai’s McDonald’s, Burger King as plastic ban takes...
MUMBAI: Burger King, McDonald's and Starbucks are among dozens of companies fined for violating a new ban on single-use plastics in India's commercial capital...
Thailand’s green turtle’s plastic-filled stomach highlights ocean crisis
Startling images of plastic shreds, rubber bands and other debris found jammed in the stomach of a green turtle in Thailand have highlighted the...
WWF warns Mediterranean could become a ‘sea of plastic’
The Mediterranean could become a "sea of plastic", the WWF warned on Friday in a report calling for measures to clean up one of...
Plastic in dumps threaten Sri Lanka elephants foraging for food
COLOMBO: At a garbage dump in central Sri Lanka, a herd of wild elephants forage among a mountain of rubbish, swallowing dangerous scraps of...
Researchers accidentally develop enzyme which eats plastic
LONDON: Researchers in the US and Britain have accidentally engineered an enzyme which eats plastic and may eventually help solve the growing problem of...
Pacific plastic dump larger than feared
AMSTERDAM: The vast dump of plastic waste swirling in the Pacific ocean is now bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined, far larger than...
Punjab to hold Pakistan’s biggest plastic products exhibition at Lahore Expo
LAHORE: Punjab Information and Technology Minister Sheikh Alla-u-Din on Thursday said that the provincial government has made arrangements for 'PAKPLAS Exhibition'- Pakistan’s largest show of...
Krill could be the secret weapon in battling ocean plastics
PARIS: They might be at the bottom of the food chain, but krill could prove to be a secret weapon in the fight against...
Plastic slowly destroying coral reefs
Plastic is one of the biggest threats to the future of coral reefs after ocean warming, say scientists.
"Plastic is one of the biggest threats...
Paddle-boarders trying to rid River Thames of plastic waste
LONDON: Floating on the murky waters of the River Thames in London, activist paddle-boarders are trying to rid the waterway of a plague of...
Cashless businesses on the rise as plastic dominates
The other day at Dig Inn, a just-opened lunch spot on Broadway and 38th Street in Midtown Manhattan, Shania Bryant committed a consumer faux...
