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Customer outraged by grocery store's 'asinine' new free sample practice: 'This is beyond absurd'
The post features an image of a tray of plastic sample cups at a Sprouts Farmers Market, each holding a single blueberry. The caption criticizes the display: "They have plastic sample cups that ...
Plastic-degrading enzymes found in landfills
Enzymes found in landfills around the world may be able to break down plastic waste. Some 11 billion metric tons of plastic ...
Machine learning enables customized plastics that could reduce environmental impact
About 100 million metric tons of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), one of the world's most commonly used plastics, are ...
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Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says
Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...
What’s that microplastic? Advances in machine learning are making identifying plastics in the environment more reliable
To deal with microplastic pollution, it helps agencies to know what kind of plastic they’ve got on their hands.
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Plastic in idlis? Bengaluru’s breakfast staple is facing contamination concerns
The State's FDA tested 251 samples of Idli from across the state and found contamination in 51 samples, prompting the Karnataka health department to order a ban on the use of plastics in idli ...