World War II saw some truly amazing innovations and feats of engineering. Actually, there were several pieces of equipment ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

Plastic chemicals could be present in some popular ... For example, the FDA recently issued a Class 1 recall for some cheese ...

salt-marsh grasses and corals 1,2. Mammals, reptiles and birds can also be harmed through eating plastic or becoming entangled in it. Last year, the secretariat of the Convention on Biological ...

The kitchen tool in question is: Clingfilm, a common kitchen tool that can be found for less than £2 - £1.80 at Tesco. According to a food expert at The Kitchin, simply wrapping the film ...

A strain of bacterium that often causes infections in hospital can break down plastic, research published this week in Cell Reports reveals 1. Researchers in the United Kingdom identified an ...

Microplastics are plastic particles less than five millimetres ... the Balcony (8440 m.a.s.l.). MPs were detected at 30 MP per litre in snow and 1 MP/litre in stream water, and the majority ...

Anglian Water has been fined a record £1.42 million for drinking water failures ... said the company used unapproved plastic-based products to externally coat pipework submerged within their ...

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