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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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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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Plastic Island
Volunteers here have an almost full-time job scooping up the corpses ... the huge dump of plastic trash sitting on the runway awaiting collection by boats is evidence of that.
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 ...