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Collection, clean-up, create awareness: Tamil Nadu begins year-long...
As per a TNPCB release, the drive will consist of 3 key components – a plastic collection drive, clean-up drive, and awareness activities aimed at...
A shape-shifting plastic with a flexible future
3 Feb 2024 1:30 PMResearchers have created a new type of plastic with properties that can be set with heat and then locked in with rapid cooling. Unlike classic...
Vikas Lifecare picks up 50 pc stake in UAE-based entity
18 Jan 2024 10:12 AMVikas Lifecare recycles plastic waste to manufacture pallets and interlocking tiles for industrial applications.
Bottled water contains thousands of previously unknown nanoplastics:...
9 Jan 2024 9:15 AMIn recent years, there has been rising concern that tiny particles known as microplastics are showing up basically everywhere on Earth -- from polar...
Researchers develop new method to tackle polyethylene waste
10 Dec 2023 6:45 AMMost of the plastics used today end up being discarded and accumulated in landfills.
Plastic contaminant may raise risk of autism, ADHD: Study
29 Sept 2023 12:45 PMThe team measured the efficiency of glucuronidation in three groups of children in the US: 66 with autism, 46 with ADHD and 37 healthy children.
HC frowns over Railway’s plastic use
28 Sept 2023 12:45 AMA HC bench directed the Railways to file a report on the steps taken to exterminate the use of plastic in trains, even as it wanted the transporter to...
Tiny parasitic wasp can drill through plastic
22 Sept 2023 12:30 PMOf the 56 wasps the researchers raised, eight drilled holes in the plastic, including three who did so even though a perfectly good host was sitting...