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FUTURE PLASTIC: How to make your plastic coffee cup biodegradable — most recycling bins won’t help

With roughly 440,000 tonnes of plastic leaking into South Africa’s environment every year, plant-based packaging is often championed as an eco-friendly cure-all. But as Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) scientists develop innovative biopolymers from local agricultural waste, an infrastructural deficit stands in the way.

27 Oct, 14:35

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