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Understanding the Different Types of Plastic
PET is one of the most commonly used plastics. It’s usually transparent ... That’s partly because they consist of several ...
Is it too late to do anything about the problem of plastic?
In an eye-opening episode of BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth, presenters Helen Czerski and Tom Heap discuss the problem. With the ...
Mexican startup tackles plastic waste by converting it to fuel
A startup in Mexico is trying to help get a handle on one Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into ...
The Great Lakes have long faced pollution threats. The latest might be the most insidious.
When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...
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The Great Lakes have long faced pollution threats. The latest might be the most insidious.
Those different uses require different types of plastics, with different dyes, forms and compositions. Past threats to the Great Lakes were single contaminants like mercury or PCBs from single ...