Plastic Packaging Manufacturers Face Downturn in Demand: Sales Drop by 6%

Plastic Packaging Manufacturers Face Downturn in Demand: Sales Drop by 6%

Dip in demand also for industrial packaging (Photo: Pexels / Markus Spiske) Manufacturers of plastic packaging are also suffering from weak demand: In the first half of this year, their sales fell by 6 percent compared to the previous year, as the IK Plastic Packaging Industry Association (IK, Bad Homburg; ) reports. In addition to … Read more

Decline in Litter with Introduction of Can Deposit: Latest Measurements by Rijkswaterstaat

Decline in Litter with Introduction of Can Deposit: Latest Measurements by Rijkswaterstaat

ANPZ site waste NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 19:15 Fewer cans ended up on the street after the introduction of a deposit. The number of cans in litter has not been this low in at least eight years, according to the latest measurements from Rijkswaterstaat. In a report to the House of Representatives, outgoing State Secretary Heijnen of … Read more

Lucie Matušová’s Transformation and Resemblance to Daenerys Targaryen: The Journey of Bohuš Matuš’s Wife

Lucie Matušová’s Transformation and Resemblance to Daenerys Targaryen: The Journey of Bohuš Matuš’s Wife

Does Lucie Matušová also remind you of Daenerys Targaryen? Source: ČTK/Profimedia.cz Bohuš Matuš with his wife Lucia and daughter Natálka Source: ČTK/Profimedia.cz Lucie Matušová went through a big transformation. Source: ČTK/Profimedia.cz Singer Bohuš Matuš is a proud father, although he did not want or plan to have children before. Source: profimedia.cz / ČTK Bohuš Matuš … Read more

The Dark Side of Paper Straws: A Closer Look at the Environmental Impact

The Dark Side of Paper Straws: A Closer Look at the Environmental Impact

Before 2019, 500 million plastic straws were used in the US every day, according to National Geographic. Many states have since banned them, forcing eateries to offer paper straws to their customers. It is similar in many places in Europe and here in Latvia. In a new study published in the scientific journal “Food Additives … Read more

Ingenious Tea-Making: Young People Use Water Bottle as a Refrigerator

Ingenious Tea-Making: Young People Use Water Bottle as a Refrigerator

Al-Marsad Newspaper: A video clip documented young people using a plastic water bottle to make tea, after they forgot the refrigerator at home. One of them indicated that they went for a walk outside, but when they reached their destination, and decided to make tea, they discovered that they had forgotten the refrigerator at home, … Read more

Discovery of Microplastics in Human Heart Tissues Raises Concerns about Plastic Pollution’s Impact on Health

Discovery of Microplastics in Human Heart Tissues Raises Concerns about Plastic Pollution’s Impact on Health

Jakarta – Microplastics have been discovered for the first time in the human heart and its innermost tissues. The consequences of finding microplastics in the heart for human health are still unknown. But this latest study is yet another grim reminder of how serious the world’s plastic pollution is. In one study, scientists at Beijing … Read more

‘Palacio 16: Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Palace of the Infante Don Luis de Borbón’

‘Palacio 16: Contemporary Art Exhibition at the Palace of the Infante Don Luis de Borbón’

The cultural group Arte-son will organize one more year, with the collaboration of the Arenas de San Pedro City Council, the exhibition of Contemporary Art ‘Palacio 16’ that will open its doors this Saturday, July 29 at the Palace of the Infante Don Luis de Borbón and which can be visited throughout the month of … Read more

Maleza: Exploring the Colors and Shadows of Nature in Esteban Peña’s Exhibition at Nueveochenta Gallery

Maleza: Exploring the Colors and Shadows of Nature in Esteban Peña’s Exhibition at Nueveochenta Gallery

Esteban Peña is a color genius; the images of him are a pure hoax, are they photographs?, are they paintings? In Maleza, his new exhibition at the Nueveochenta gallery, all the questions crowd together and vanish in a second, because its flowers fill the space and leave new questions in the air: how long do … Read more