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A “bizarrely” efficient way to quickly convert ocean plastic into ingredients for drug industry

A “bizarrely” efficient way to quickly convert ocean plastic into ingredients for drug industry

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Watch The Swirling Islands Of Plastic Trash That Are Filling Up Our Oceans

Watch The Swirling Islands Of Plastic Trash That Are Filling Up Our Oceans

Courtesy of NASA, see where the 5 trillion pieces of floating plastic floating we’ve put in our oceans. Next year, a 20-year-old inventor will begin trawling the world’s oceans t... Read more

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Minute Plastic Fibres Found in Abundance in the Deep Seas

Minute Plastic Fibres Found in Abundance in the Deep Seas

Around four billion minute fibres could be littering each square kilometre of some of the world’s deep seas, demonstrating that plastic debris is now creating cause for concern in some of th... Read more

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Heat-conducting plastic developed at U-Michigan

Heat-conducting plastic developed at U-Michigan

The spaghetti-like internal structure of most plastics makes it hard for them to cast away heat, but a University of Michigan research team has made a plastic blend that does so 10 times bet... Read more

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New Plastic that Disappears When You Want It To

New Plastic that Disappears When You Want It To

Ultimate recycling Plastic populates our world through everything from electronics to packaging and vehicles. Once discarded, it resides almost permanently in landfills and oceans. A discove... Read more

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Ethical Filament: Can Fair Trade Plastic Save People and the Planet?

Ethical Filament: Can Fair Trade Plastic Save People and the Planet?

“Filament prices are so high that places like Protoprint could sell their filament at half that price and still give pickers a living wage while doing good for the environment,” said Pearce.... Read more

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First graphene-based flexible display produced

First graphene-based flexible display produced

This is a significant step forward to enable fully wearable and flexible devices – Andrea Ferrari A flexible display incorporating graphene in its pixels’ electronics has been successf... Read more

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Novel recycling methods: The fluorescent fingerprint of plastics

Novel recycling methods: The fluorescent fingerprint of plastics

LMU researchers have developed a new process which will greatly simplify the process of sorting plastics in recycling plants. The method enables automated identification of polymers, facilit... Read more

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Turning waste from rice, parsley and other foods into biodegradable plastic

Turning waste from rice, parsley and other foods into biodegradable plastic

Your chairs, synthetic rugs and plastic bags could one day be made out of cocoa, rice and vegetable waste rather than petroleum, scientists are now reporting. The novel process they develope... Read more

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Nature inspires a greener way to make colorful plastics

Nature inspires a greener way to make colorful plastics

Long before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process — think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues, for example. Now scientists are... Read more

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Microplastics worse for crabs and other marine life than previously thought, study shows

Microplastics worse for crabs and other marine life than previously thought, study shows

It has been suggested that 10 per cent of plastic which is thrown away ends up in the marine environment The tiny plastic particles polluting our seas are not only orally ingested by marine... Read more

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Biodegradable paper covers as a replacement for plastics opens up the bio-economy market for horticulture

Biodegradable paper covers as a replacement for plastics opens up the bio-economy market for horticulture

Global vegetable production currently depends on plastics: approximately 15 million hectares of agricultural land are covered under black horticultural plastics. While alternatives to the pl... Read more

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Could This Gigantic Ocean Plastic Clean-Up Machine Actually Pick Up Our Ocean Trash?

Could This Gigantic Ocean Plastic Clean-Up Machine Actually Pick Up Our Ocean Trash?

An outlandish idea, floated by a 17-year-old two years ago, now has funding, a 530-page feasibility study, and the backing of 15 institutions. Next step: Actually picking up some trash. Two... Read more

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Wood Foam to Replace Plastic Insulation

Wood Foam to Replace Plastic Insulation

Fraunhofer scientists are developing insulation foam made from wood that could re- place petrochemical plastics in the long term. Insulation materials of tomorrow must be both efficient and... Read more

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Save Money and the Planet: Turn Your Old Milk Jugs into 3D Printer Filament

Save Money and the Planet: Turn Your Old Milk Jugs into 3D Printer Filament

Making your own stuff with a 3D printer is vastly cheaper than what you’d pay for manufactured goods, even factoring in the cost of buying the plastic filament. Yet, you can drive the cost d... Read more

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