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This carelessness becomes the enemy of life. Now take this 'plastic' bottle for example. From home to office, from parks to roads, wherever you look today, you will find these plastic bottles in ...

About 75 percent of the deaths were in Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific — reflecting growing concern about the amount of plastic proliferating in developing countries. “We think of ...

Plastic foam must be phased out at a local, state and national level in order to protect the oceans and human health, according to a new analysis. The report by Oceana warns plastic foam, which ...

OVER FIFTY years ago, the existence of government records on magnetic tape brought down a president. In 1971 the Secret Service installed Sony open-reel tape recorders throughout the White House ...

Advocates, citing the threat of rising plastic waste to human and environmental health, say the timing for the bills is ripe given rising health concerns about microplastics and the passage of ...

Some developing nations including India and China opposed curbing primary polymer production, seeking instead to focus on plastic waste management. Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav on ...

I felt that. Lovely advice, all told,” another supporter commented. While Barrymore denied getting any plastic surgery to prevent or soften the effects of aging, she did get a breast reduction ...

The amount of plastic being recycled around the world is stagnant at less than 10% with most new plastic still made from fossil fuels, a new study said Thursday. Researchers from Tsinghua ...

Created by Assoc. Prof. Nick Gravish and colleagues at UC San Diego, the mechanical appendage is known as "GRIP-tape," the word GRIP standing for "Grasping and Rolling In-Plane." ...

Enterprise minister Peter Burke recently introduced an ‘SME test’, with Government departments and agencies required to measure the potential impact of new policies on small and medium-sized ...

Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments The unique construction that makes plastic so useful also makes it prone to forming hazardous micro- and nanoscopic shards Date: April 7 ...