Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Each year, on our fruit-and-vegetable farm in New England, my family covers about a quarter of our 50 acres with plastic mulch. Rolls of it, five feet wide ...

In April 2018, videos appeared purporting to show evidence of the toxicity of store-bought foods by peeling a layer of what appears to be plastic off leaves of lettuce.

This is likely similar to the same preinstalled plastic layer found on the Nintendo Switch OLED. It’s attached with a kind of adhesive, so removing it with any haste can damage or mar the glass ...

Plastic production has soared from 2 million tonnes in 1950 to 348 million tonnes in 2017. ... We saved the ozone layer - now we must do the same with plastic pollution.

Tiny plastic packets known as sachets have allowed companies to tap millions of low-income customers in the developing world but also unleashed a global pollution crisis.

From lower carbon emissions to fewer potholes, there are a number of benefits to building a layer of plastic into roads. On a road into New Delhi, countless cars a day speed over tonnes of plastic ...

Moreover, most modern portable power banks are already designed to prevent external short circuits, making the extra plastic layer unnecessary. Environmental and financial concerns are also growing.

Scientists have for the first time shown that some wild corals are feeding on tiny shreds of plastic trash. Worse, the animals seem to prefer those ‘microplastics’ over their natural food ...

Surface deep: Light-responsive top layer of plastic film induces movement. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 08 / 200822085716.htm.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Families that have plastic children’s plates in their cupboards should check for a possible recall item. Paytex has issued a voluntary recall of the Playtex Plates and Bowls ...

A video shared on Instagram shows a man putting a half-filled Coca-Cola can into a glass of heavy-duty drain cleaner to show the ‘plastic’ layer inside it.