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Eating These 9 Foods? You Might Be Swallowing Microplastics
It's not just seafood anymore. Microplastics are showing up in snacks, sweets and even vegetables.
Microplastics found in new body part — as scientists warn about common way they’re ‘leaching’ into us
Previous research detected the tiny particles in our brains, lungs, liver, kidneys and blood — plus in bodily fluids like semen and breast milk.
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5 Years Without a Dustbin: How One Mumbai Family Made Sustainability Simple
At Sonika Bhasin’s Mumbai home, sustainability is second nature. From composting kitchen scraps and switching to bioenzymes ...
I tracked my trash for one week. Here’s what I swapped to cut out single-use plastic
I stashed all my trash for one week to assess where I could make sustainable swaps. Here’s what I changed to reduce my ...
3 Methods For Cleaning And Removing Mold From A Shower
Fill your spray bottle with equal parts warm water and hydrogen peroxide. Spray the moldy areas with your solution and allow ...
It's time to ditch plastic bags — but it's more complicated than you think | Editorial
Remember the movement to eliminate plastic straws? While it hasn’t solved our massive plastic problem, it was a ...
Microplastics detected in human brain tissue: Could they be linked to dementia?
Microplastics have previously been detected throughout the human body including in the blood, saliva, liver, kidneys, lungs, ...
Food & Water Watch7d
What YOU Can Do About Microplastics in Our Water!
Food & Water Watch experts explain the dangers of microplastic pollution in our drinking water and our work toward regulations.
Longmont Times-Call9d
That water bottle you’re carrying says a lot more than ‘hydration’
The LARQ PureVis 2 is another self-cleaning water bottle. The company says the plant-based filter in the lid removes chlorine ...
IEEE9d
Optimizing Plastic Waste Collection in Water Bodies Using Heterogeneous Autonomous Surface Vehicles With Deep Reinforcement Learning
Abstract: This letter presents a model-free deep reinforcement learning framework for informative path planning with heterogeneous fleets of autonomous surface vehicles to locate and collect plastic ...