The dairy industry strives to preserve the quality and safety of milk products while maintaining the freshest possible taste for consumers. To date, the industry has largely focused on packaging milk in light-blocking containers ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 26, 2023
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Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country's huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wrappers, water bottles and similar garbage that usually ends up in landfills or the Nile.
Environment
Jan 18, 2023
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Governments around the world are introducing single-use plastic product bans to alleviate pollution.
Environment
Jan 13, 2023
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Bottles. Plastic bags. Surgical facemasks. These are just some of the 29,029 items we found along the 180km Araromi coastline Nigeria in nine months while studying marine litter. The litter weighed in at a hefty 465.54kg.
Environment
Dec 30, 2022
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Researchers used story-writing to explore schoolchildren's perceptions of marine plastic litter and the effects on their behaviors to the problem.
Social Sciences
Dec 20, 2022
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Her name is Bullumby, meaning "beautiful one," and she's helping carry the survival hopes of her species.
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2022
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On the Greek island of Naxos, two divers reeled in not the catch of the day but a jumble of cable, rope, fishing nets and old clothes from the seafloor.
Environment
Nov 16, 2022
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Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace U.S. report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction."
Environment
Oct 24, 2022
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A majority of Virginia voters are concerned about pollution, particularly plastics clogging waterways and runoff that contaminates waters, according to a recent survey by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program, Clean ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2022
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Enzymes found in the saliva of wax worms can degrade one of the most common forms of plastic waste, according to research published Tuesday that could open up new ways of dealing with plastic pollution.
Materials Science
Oct 4, 2022
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