Economic measures provide basic economic and regulatory guidance to influence the demand and supply for particular packaging materials and/or product groups. They include…
Plastic is one of the most used materials for consumer goods, packaging and as building material. The use of plastics in the building sector is greatly influenced by current megatrends: climate…
Volume 7 of INTERSECTING – in plastics, united we are! But it is time to bend the linear economy and turn 20% of the world economy circular by 2030. In the spring of 2021, the…
In Malaysia, the project CAP SEA, which stands for “Collaborative Actions on Single-Use Plastic Prevention in Southeast Asia” is financed by the German Federal…
Disposable, single-use packaging is convenient from the perspective of consumers. This holds true, for example, for takeaway food packaging. However, the high amounts of plastic consumed entail…
Discharges of wastewater from industrial activities represent a global challenge, with developing countries and emerging economies especially vulnerable to their…
Globally, packaging waste has increasingly become an environmental problem. The problem is the large volume, the high resource intensity in production, the low…
Could the use of plastic as a raw material for the production of construction material, especially for low-cost housing and shelters, give plastic waste a second life? Several companies and start-…