This bacterium could change the world: scientists have high hopes for plastic-eating microorganisms

In 2001, a group of Japanese scientists made a startling discovery at a garbage dump. In trenches filled with dirt and waste, they found a slimy film of bacteria that happily chewed on plastic bottles, toys and other small items. By breaking down garbage, bacteria obtained energy from carbon...

Stronger than steel and lighter than plastic: American scientists have created a new material

MIT researchers have developed a new material that is as strong as steel but as light as plastic, USAToday reports. According to Michael Strano, Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Senior Specialist, the new material can be easily produced in large…

Every cloud has a silver lining: Los Angeles-based company creates building blocks from plastic waste

Imagine taking a mountain of rubbish and a pile of earth-polluting unusable plastic waste and turning it into something useful. Plastic pollution is a growing and increasingly serious problem. Experts estimate that by 2040 up to 710 million tons of hard plastic…

Bottled water has an expiration date: why it matters

Each of us always has several bottles of water. Many people even stock up on large packages of bottled water to be sure that they will have enough for a long time. But it turns out that water in bottles actually cannot be stored forever, because it has ...

On a bank card per week: a modern person eats a huge amount of plastic, which ruins his health

Recent studies show that people consume about five grams of small plastic particles every week, which is about the weight of your credit card, according to NewYorkPost. Plastic particles get into human food from packaging waste, enter the body through sea salt, seafood, ...

American scientists have created the strongest adhesive in the world

By carefully studying the chemical structure of ordinary household plastic, scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy have managed to turn it into a reusable adhesive with unique properties, according to ITC. A plot of 1 cm2 with a few drops of a substance can hold 136 kg in weight.…

Kills 90 people annually: how a very dangerous element gets into our food

Everyone knows that we need to be careful about the food we eat. But, as it turned out, you should pay attention to certain types of packaging materials. In particular, it is best to avoid foods in plastic containers as exposure to phthalates, or toxic chemicals found in many ...

Already collected 9 tons: an activist has created a device that cleans the world's oceans from plastic

It's been almost a decade since Boyan Slat announced, at 18, that he had a plan to rid the world's oceans of plastic. What he did was told by Business Insider. Slat, now 27 years old, is a Dutch…

Modern man eats kilograms of plastic: how it happens and how it threatens

What do you have for dinner tonight? Lego sushi, credit card burgers, or a well-done piece of PVC pipe? These examples may seem exaggerated, but they help to represent the cumulative number of microscopic pieces of plastic that we consume every day, writes Reuters. According to research ...

Saving the planet: 10 disposables you shouldn't use

You can save the planet without compromising your own comfort, writes Lifehacker. We all use disposable items: buying coffee in paper cups on the way to work, ordering grocery delivery from the store in plastic bags, taking bottled water to the gym, wiping down our sneakers...

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