A breakthrough in the development of self-healing packaging could revolutionise the packaging industry by allowing products to fix themselves after cracking or even breaking into pieces.
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the whole product cycle needs to be redesigned. She told the BBC that 78 million tonnes of plastic packaging were produced in the world every year, of which 40% went straight to landfill.
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coffee cups and containers for beauty products. “We are looking at the beauty industry, because it is focussing on finding solutions to replace plastic and glass containers,” he said.