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Your brain tissue is 50% more plastic than in 2016
Tired of all the dire political news? How about some dire medical news instead - scientists just discovered your brain is a ...
Beyond plastic: How gardeners can reduce landfill waste
How many pots is that? Nearly 242 million. Wow! Historically, more plants were sold as bare-root, ball and burlap, or in ...
A Breakthrough Discovery Transforms Plastic Trash Into Valuable Industrial Materials
Scientists have found methods to convert plastic waste into valuable chemicals. One approach breaks plastics into olefins for ...
The solution to the plastic straw debate is hiding in plain sight
Trump signed an executive order this week in favor of plastic straws over paper ones. As the debate rages on, here’s why you ...
How scientists plan to prevent plastic pollution in the ocean
You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...
Grist11d
The ‘recycled’ plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill.
Most plastic products, by contrast, can be reprocessed only once — if at all — by turning them into lower quality products that are eventually destined for the trash bin. Although such ...
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Salt Lake City recycles almost half of the waste it collects from residents.
The good news is the city is recycling close to 50% of waste collected from residents. The bad news is that when the landfill is full, it will have to move to a new location and most likely far away.
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A Recyclable Alternative to 'Bowling Ball' Plastic
But they’re extremely difficult to recycle, and millions of tonnes end up in landfill, or incinerated into the atmosphere, each year. Now a team of researchers has made a plastic which boasts the ...
Honolulu Has A Landfill Problem. Here’s A Possible Solution
For example, a dedicated plant at Honolulu airport could handle airport waste, while the U.S. Navy might establish a plant at ...