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Hohenstein to create New textile microplastic standard

Testing service provider Hohenstein, with the help of the project partners Trigema, Freudenberg, DBL ITEX, and Paradies, has developed a…

1 year ago

Xeros Technology to explore upcycling of microplastics

Xeros Technology has partnered with the University of Surrey to jointly fund ground-breaking research to turn the microfibers recovered from…

1 year ago

Patagonia, Samsung develops washing machine that reduces microplastics

Samsung and Patagonia have teamed up to fight the microplastics that are produced throughout the textile and laundry processes.

1 year ago

Teijin Frontier develops highly biodegradable PLA resin to possibly reduce microplastics

Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd., claims to have created a useful polylactic acid (PLA) resin that biodegrades more quickly than traditional…

1 year ago

California adopts nations’s first microplastics reduction policy

The California Ocean Protection Council has approved the first comprehensive microplastics strategy in the country, in response to growing concern.

2 years ago

Samsung partners with Patagonia to minimize microplastics

Samsung Electronics, has teamed up with sustainable outerwear brand Patagonia, to develop a washing technology that reduces microplastics.

2 years ago

UK’s APPG outlines policy recommendations on microplastics

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microplastics (APPG) published a report titled ‘Microplastic Policies for the Government,' which includes a number…

3 years ago

Scientists discovers a way to remove microplastics from water

Microbiologists claim to have discovered a way to naturally capture and eliminate microplastic waste from marine ecosystems using 'sticky' bacteria.

3 years ago

Conservation X Labs launches a challenge to solve the microplastic pollution issue

Washington DC-based Conservation X Labs which is an innovative technology company for finding global solutions for the sustainable model has…

3 years ago

Is ocean microplastic severely underestimated?

New research into the extent of microplastic pollution in the oceans suggests there could be at least double the amount…

4 years ago