Bioplastic

Students who came first with their "bioplastics from acorns" project in The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Türkiye's (TÜBİTAK) High School Students Polar Research Projects Competition had the opportunity to test their project in Antarctica.

Minister of the Environment, Waters and Forestry Tanczos Barna wrote on Friday on his Facebook page that his ministry has been working for several months on implementing in Romania the European Union Directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment, also known as the Single-Use Plastic (SUP) Directive and that this process will end next week with the gover

Italian bioplastics company Bio-On on Wednesday denied allegations of accounting irregularities by US hedge fund Quintessential Capital Management, saying it was considering legal action against the fund.

Some 14 months after Gabriel Grego and his fund, Quintessential Capital Management (QCM), exposed the goings-on at troubled Greek jewelry maker and retailer Folli Follie, leading to the suspension of trading in the latter's stock and hurting many investors and funds, the same fund is back in the spotlight, this time blowing the whistle on an Italian firm.

According to the new rules approved Tuesday in the European Parliament, all member states need to reduce the usage of the most commonly used plastic bags.

The new legislation set on ensuring a beneficial situation for all parts, as stated by EU MP Margrete Auken. She is a member of the party of the Greens in Denmark and has been responsible for outlining trends in a report.

Dan Vodnar, a young scientist of the Romanian city Cluj-Napoca the inventor of anti-microbial packaging derived from gastropod shell, algae and other natural ingredients has become the first Romanian to receive the Danubius Young Scientist Award, the 2014 edition.