Tesco and Sainsbury's have been accused of misleading customers over their front-of-store recycling schemes after an investigation found that most soft plastic returned to stores was burned.

An investigation into the recycling of soft plastics by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has led to calls for Sainsbury’s and Tesco to publicly support the Global ...

Following today’s release of a report on the recycling of soft plastics by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), members of the industry have commented. The investigation ...

In 2021, the supermarket set up bins in its stores in which customers could leave their difficult-to-recycle “soft plastics”, like the low density polyethylene from shopping bags and film lids.

Soft materials are materials that can be easily deformed by thermal stresses or thermal fluctuations at about room temperature. Soft materials include liquids, polymers, foams, gels, colloids ...

In the U.S., beer and soft-drink cans have a recycling rate of about 50%, compared with a 9% recycling rate for plastic, ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

Soft plastics deposited at supermarket recycling points are mostly sent abroad and burned, an investigation has found. Campaigners placed trackers in 40 bundles of soft plastic waste, such as ...

“The energy required to flip their poles is the lowest ever reported for multiaxial soft ferroelectrics,” Stupp said. “You can imagine how much energy this will save in increasingly energy-hungry ...

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