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Packages of separated cans are seen at Amarsul plant in Seixal, Portugal July 7, 2020. Picture taken July 7, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
Analysis

Private equity's falling out of love with plastic packaging

This reversal illustrates how much the investment world has recalibrated itself in a matter of years, with environmental factors becoming dealmakers or breakers

FILE PHOTO: A business jet is refuelled using Jet A fuel at the Henderson Executive Airport during the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada, US October 21, 2019. REUTERS/David Becker/File Photo
Science

US scientists invent way to turn plastic waste into jet fuel in one hour

Photo: TBS
Environment

Bangladeshi rivers receive 24 times more plastic waste from neighbours

Photo: Microplastics
Environment

Up to 3 billion microplastics flow into Bay of Bengal everyday

Karnaphuli dredging paralysed by plastic
Bangladesh

Karnaphuli dredging paralysed by plastic

DSCC has started removing the solid waste from the culvert in the capital’s Segunbagicha. Photo: TBS
Environment

DSCC removing solid waste mixed with plastic from Gopibagh box culvert  

PRISM’s plastic medical waste. Photo: TBS.
Bangladesh

PRISM’s plastic medical waste goes to the black market

Has Bacardi solved the world’s plastic problem?
Panorama

Has Bacardi solved the world’s plastic problem?

Representational image. Photo: Collected
Thoughts

Covid-19 pandemic: Exacerbating plastic pollution catastrophe

Call for ban on single-use plastic
Environment

Call for ban on single-use plastic

Plastic pandemic: Covid-19 trashed the recycling dream
World+Biz

Plastic pandemic: Covid-19 trashed the recycling dream

Photo: Courtesy
Economy

230 more leather, plastic, light engineering firms to get investment aid

FILE PHOTO: Lego logo is seen at a toy store in Bonn, Germany, September 5, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
Environment

Lego intensifies search for sustainable bricks