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Tiny Plastic Particles in the Environment

May 5, 2021
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Dübendorf, Switzerland — Wherever scientists look, they can spot them: whether in remote mountain lakes, in Arctic sea ice, in the deep-ocean floor or in air samples, even in edible fish – thousands...

Study Paves the Way for New Photosensitive Materials

April 23, 2021
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Tempe, AZ — Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surfaces, pollution-fighting paints...

New Process Makes ‘Biodegradable’ Plastics Truly Compostable

April 21, 2021
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Berkeley, CA — Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution to the plastic pollution problem bedeviling the world, but today’s “compostable” plastic bags, utensils...

Scientists Created Edible Food Films for Food Packaging

March 24, 2021
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Yekaterinburg, Russia — An international group of scientists from India and Russia has created edible food films for packaging fruits, vegetables, poultry, meat, and seafood. Films consist of natural...

How Our Microplastic Waste Becomes ‘Hubs’ for Pathogens, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

March 22, 2021
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Newark, NJ — It’s estimated that an average-sized wastewater treatment plant serving roughly 400,000 residents will discharge up to 2,000,000 microplastic particles into the environment each...

Particulates are More Dangerous Than Previously Thought

March 19, 2021
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Villigen, Switzerland — Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time observed photochemical processes inside the smallest particles in the air. In doing so, they discovered...

More Sustainable Recycling of Plastics

February 18, 2021
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Konstanz, Germany — The new method works without extremely high temperatures, is therefore more energy-efficient and has a significantly higher recovery rate (approx. 96 per cent of the starting material)...

Eliminating Microplastics in Wastewater Directly at the Source

January 19, 2021
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Quebec, Canada — A research team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has developed a process for the electrolytic treatment of wastewater that degrades microplastics at the...

Industrial Waste is Reused to Produce Alternatives to Plastic

December 15, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — In Brazil, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Ilha Solteira have developed a film that can replace plastic in food packaging. The film is made from hydroxypropyl...

Engineers Discover New Microbe for Simpler, Cheaper and Greener Wastewater Treatment

December 10, 2020
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Singapore — Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new way to treat sewage that is much simpler, cheaper and greener than existing methods. Led by Associate...

Plastic contaminants harm sea urchins

December 1, 2020
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Exeter, UK — Plastics in the ocean can release chemicals that cause deformities in sea urchin larvae, new research shows. Scientists soaked various plastic samples in seawater then removed the plastic...

Effects of Nutrient Pollution in Marine Ecosystems are Compounded by Human Activity

August 17, 2020
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Cambridge, MD — Excessive nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, have devastating effects on coastal marine ecosystems by causing algal blooms that deplete oxygen in the water, killing marine...

Seafood Study Finds Plastic in All Samples

August 14, 2020
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Exeter, UK — A study of five different seafoods has found traces of plastic in every sample tested. Researchers bought oysters, prawns, squid, crabs and sardines from a market in Australia and analysed...

Technology Can Help Speed Soil Recovery After Oil Spills

August 12, 2020
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Madison WI — After an oil spill or leak, it’s important to act fast. If the oil has gotten into soil, scientists need to rapidly assess how much oil there is and how far it spread. It’s...

A New Look at Deep-Sea Microbes

July 10, 2020
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Newark, DE — Microbial cells are found in abundance in marine sediments beneath the ocean and make up a significant amount of the total microbial biomass on the planet. Microbes found deeper in the...

New Process could Safeguard Water Quality, Environment and Health

June 25, 2020
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Wales, UK — A research team at Swansea University have developed a new method for fast removal and detection of wastewater pollutants that come from everyday pharmaceuticals like paracetamol, ibuprofen...

Effects from low-level concentrations of harmful chemicals preserved in three generations of fish

June 25, 2020
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Corvallis, OR — Fish exposed to very low levels of chemicals commonly found in waterways can pass the impacts on to future generations that were never directly exposed to the chemicals, according to...

Removing Toxic Chemicals From Water — New Environmentally-Friendly Method

June 24, 2020
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Swansea, UK — Researchers from Swansea University have developed a new environmentally friendly method for removing toxic chemicals from water. A newly invented machine, called the Matrix Assembly...

Recycling Plastics Together, Simple and Fast

June 4, 2020
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Nagano, Japan — Recycling plastic faces several challenges, one of which is recycling different types of plastics together, because they have varying properties, each of which need to be addressed...

Superworms Digest Plastic, with Help from Their Bacterial Sidekicks

May 28, 2020
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Washington, DC — Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that are often sold in pet stores as feed for reptiles, fish and birds. In addition to their relatively...

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