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