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REFERENCE: Plastics cause wide-ranging health issues from cancer to birth defects, landmark study finds:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/29/plastics-cause-wide-ranging-health-issues-from-cancer-to-birth-defects-landmark-study-finds Microplastics found deep in lungs of living people for first time:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/microplastics-found-deep-in-lungs-of-living-people-for-first-time Detection of Various Microplastics in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c0717 Even our own bodies now contain plastic waste. It’s time to get drastic:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/23/humans-contain-plastic-waste-drastic-banning-straw While the dangers of plastic pollution entering and […]

REFERENCE: The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health:https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/10.5334/aogh.4056/ Plastics cause wide-ranging health issues from cancer to birth defects, landmark study finds:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/29/plastics-cause-wide-ranging-health-issues-from-cancer-to-birth-defects-landmark-study-finds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other When synthetic plastic was first invented in 1807, there was no way of knowing the long-term effects such a revolutionary manufacturing innovation would have on the environment and on human health. However, over […]

REFERENCE: Tell me about the harmful effect of UV ink:https://mimaki.com/support/faq/ink/entry-58453.html?iframe=true&width=100 Identification and Migration Studies of Photolytic Decomposition Products of UV-Photoinitiators in Food Packaging:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6804238/ Dear Customer Using UV Ink:https://mimaki.com/archives/034/UV%20ink_DearCustomerUsingUVink_D202915_V1.0.pdf The relationship we have with our food packaging is built on trust. Many of us simply assume that the packaging in which our food is contained doesn’t […]

First things first. What does  Climate C. actually mean? “Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts may be natural, such as through variations in the solar cycle. But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil […]

More and more people are looking for ways to avoid consuming plastic products and adding to the growing amount of plastic waste ending up in our landfill and  oceans, like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. While some people are going the zero waste route, others are looking for eco–friendly plastic alternatives for everyday products. One […]

A Circular Economy is a misguided and unattainable catch phrase. Input is Output. Waste collection and recovery methods, storage sites, recycling methods including how to separate laminate composites and remove sandwiched metallisation and what to do with recovered waste is convoluted. A Linear solution is what the world needs. It’s that simple and yet that […]