Plastic

Just five minutes in the microwave can unleash up to 534,000 micro- and nanoplastics into food

The term 'microwave-safe' often means a container will not visibly melt or break, not that it prevents the release of microscopic plastic particles or chemical additives

Dangerous or not? A microwave
Airport security check before the flight. A passenger holds a plastic bag with liquids.

An end to bags and small bottles: Heathrow’s revolution

Member of the study into  a new class of latent monomers.

Israeli scientists create light-activated plastic for safer manufacturing

Large quantities of plastic seen along the Dead Sea coastline.

The Dead Sea’s hidden plastic problem: A record of decades of waste - study


MKs clash on taxes for disposable utensils, sugary drinks

Objections were made against the tax on disposables, claiming that lawmakers were not given sufficient chance to debate the topic.

Ecoams Planet faces environmental challenge posed by plastic bottles

Plastic is harming our body's cells. Here's how

Plastic is found in almost every product you buy, and it causes damage to your body.

 View of Empty plastic bottles on the Dead Sea beach, on November 5, 2020.

Foreign Ministry is cutting down on plastic waste

The ministry released a statement saying that it would no longer use disposable cutlery, cups and plastic bottles.

Plastic spoons and forks.

Israel won't need to raise taxes - Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman

However, certain taxes will be raised to serve different economic goals, such as on real-estate purchases and plasticware.

 Israel's Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman is seen speaking at the Jerusalem Post annual conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, on October 12, 2021.

The deadly art of plastic

“Love, Death & Plastic” managed to put some of the detritus of modern day life to good, creative and educational use.

 EVELYN ANCA’S ‘Butt Jacket.’ As the title suggests, the piece incorporates cigarette butts, loads of them.

Israel's new gov't's intervention in our daily lives is unprecedented - opinion

What happens when the ‘Nanny State’ goes nuts

 Will a tax on sugar-laden food be next?

The climate crisis is here - but so are other environmental hazards

The fight against the climate crisis is starting to gain the support of public legitimacy, while other environmental issues, no less serious, are disappearing from the narrative almost completely.

A young girl stands with collected trash sign reading SOS

Inside Israel's proposed taxes for high-sugar drinks, plastics - analysis

There is a precedent in Israel that such a tax would work. Critics of the measures are angry about the way Liberman presented the new measures, as he vowed not to raise taxes.

 View of Empty plastic bottles on the Dead Sea beach, on November 5, 2020.

Plastic bag use down by 75% compared to 2016, but on the rise again

About 495 million plastic bags were bought by customers in 2020, a 75% decrease compared to the 1,754,000,000 bags used in 2016.

Supermarket shoppers and workers without masks in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI)

Israeli plastic giant, leading R&D 3D printing firm announce partnership

The two companies launched a new filament with a significantly reduced carbon footprint in order to enable sustainable & eco-conscious manufacturing.

Jack (Tato) Bigio, UBQ Materials co-founder and CEO of UBQ Israel, holds plastic discs made from UBQ material.