Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have recently found record levels of microplastic in arctic sea ice. However, the majority of particles were microscopically small. The ice ...
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The Taiwan-based HPMJ Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer of lead-acid battery-based products such as emergency power supplies for vehicles and energy storage battery packs for solar power installation. Dai Jian-lang, owner of HPMJ, ...
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Plastic closures manufacturer Bericap is set to exhibit a range of packaging solutions at this year’s Interpack event in Düsseldorf, Germany. At the event, the company will exhibit new packaging solutions such as e-smoCap for ...
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Every time a year near the end of the U.S. "time" magazine will be named the "twenty-five best inventions", the standard magazine founded in 1923 are surprisingly consistent, is to make the world a better and more intelligent, more ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Goodman Company, L.P., of Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $5.55 million civil penalty and has agreed to other terms of a consent decree (which is ...
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A new study has found that metal from the almost 5 trillion cigarette butts littered annually across the world may be leaching into the food chain. Published late last week by the online journal, Tobacco Control, Iranian scientists ...
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Bringg has partnered with alcohol on-demand delivery service Booze-up to enable lightning fast delivery in the UK. Booze-Up official Ashleigh Fletcher said: "Bringg enables Booze Up to offer a more efficient delivery service by means of ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Gree Electric Appliances Inc., of Zhuhai, China; Hong Kong Gree Electric Appliances Sales Co. Ltd., of Hong Kong; and Gree USA Sales Ltd., of ...
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. Deaths, ...
International Paper, a US based pulp and paper company, has signed an agreement to divest its corrugated packaging business to Xiamen Bridge Hexing Equity Investment Partnership Enterprise, for approximately $150m. Under the terms of the ...
Kush Bottles has developed a line of child-safe packaging options for electronic cigarettes (e-cigs). Recently, the US President Barack Obama has signed a law, which includes new regulations that require child-proof packaging for e-cigs. ...
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A law forcing tobacco companies to wrap their cigarettes in plain packaging could be in force in New Zealand by the end of 2016. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has confirmed a bill, which is on pause, would be resumed. He expected ...
Myanmar authorities will appeal against death sentences on two Myanmar citizens for murder of two British backpackers in Southern Thailand last year, said U Ye Htut, Presidential Spokesperson on Thursday. The appeal will be made to the ...
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21 Dec 2015 Tobacco giant Philip Morris has lost its fight against the plain packaging laws that it claimed would threaten the intellectual property of its brands. The company behind Marlboro, Peter Jackson and Longbeach cigarettes has ...
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