Scientists examining waste water from washing machines find tiny plastic fibers that are just like the microplastic debris along shorelines.
08.15.2011
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A new project gives companies and institutions a mechanism for calculating how much plastic they use, reuse and recycle.
07.10.2011
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Researchers suggest that 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic a year is swallowed by fish at intermediate depths of the North Pacific alone.
07.02.2011
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Will consumers be willing to buy a tiny pouch of window cleaner and dilute it in a spray bottle at home, rather than buying another bottle and generating plastic waste?
05.24.2011
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The problem is not just one of unsightliness, or of sea life getting caught up in plastic grocery bags or choking on plastic bottle tops or cigarette lighters. There are also the tiny fragments formed by disintegrating items, which threaten to contamin…
03.17.2011
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Republicans rebelled at spoons that seemed to dissolve in hot soups, and brought the non-recyclable ones back.
09.14.2009
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What are plastics? They are environmentally unfriendly chemical materials which are non-biodegradable and hazardous to the environment. Around the world, loads of plastic waste are produced everyday and they are thrown, especially into the ocean, which causes severe unbalance of ocean ecosystems.
