Gioia Salvatori

3 weeks ago | sciencex.com | Gioia Salvatori

A fire is raging through a house. Half of it is already in ashes; the other half might still be saved but all we have is a bucket of water. That fire is the mountain of plastic waste we're producing, growing ever larger and smothering the environment. The bucket of water is bioplastics: a natural remedy but not a definitive solution. The numbers are staggering: 29 kilos more than in 2011. Of that, 19% was plastic packaging waste, and only 41% of it was recycled.

May 19, 2023 | ru.euronews.com | Gioia Salvatori