Materials science · Recyclable productsAbout Le Méridien Maldives Resort & SpaPatémar +1
A Maldives resort collaboration with Bali-made Patémar puts recycled-plastic swim shorts beside reef education — retail as conservation touchpoint.
Retort pouches, the foil-lined packs used for wet cat food, ready meals and microwave rice, are cooked inside the pack and keep food safe for months without a fridge.
Most of India's plastic recycling happens in small, informal units that turn used bottles into low-grade granules for buckets and pipes.
Crisp packets, coffee pouches and shampoo sachets are light and cheap, but most are glued-together layers of different plastics and foil that no recycler can separate.
Paper bottles have been "a year away" for most of a decade.
Long-life milk and juice cartons owe their shelf life to a layer of aluminium foil thinner than a human hair, and that foil is one reason cartons are hard to recycle.
