For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

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State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and ...

Signatory governments and businesses representing 20% of all plastic packaging produced globally have committed to change how we produce, use, and reuse plastic in line with these 3 principles of a ...

Around 30 tonnes of waste plastic from oyster farms has been shredded down to be more easily transported to recycling facilities. The NSW government has funded a three-week project visiting ...

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A hospital specialist has invented a new product that manages to reduce plastic and simplify the process of testing urine. Consultant urologist Dr Nick Burns-Cox has been working on his own ...

Moreover, the researchers found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa can use broken-down plastic fragments to form tougher biofilms—coatings of protective slime that can increase antibiotic resistance ...

The team also found that the enzyme increased the amount of biofilm formed when P. aeruginosa was exposed to the plastic as compared with glass beads. When bacteria form high levels of biofilm ...

This is what the data says about plastic bag bans. Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law ...