Plastic is everywhere: in oceans, in the air in large cities and in our drinking water. And now it is also popping up in places where there are no people at all, namely in highly isolated areas of the North Pole. That sad discovery was made by British researchers, who saw large pieces of plastic and polystyrene (better known as styrofoam) floating in a lake.
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Every year, 8 million tonnes of marine plastic are added. As if a truck dumps a full load of plastic into the sea every minute. That is why the Ocean Conservancy organization has drawn up a top 5 with the worst plastic sinners in the sea. 1: Old fishing tackle © Shutterstock Fishing wire, nets, traps and baskets are at the top of the list of the most dangerous plastic products.
In the future we will build houses with our own urine. Scientists from the University of Cape Town have developed a process by which various substances from urine can be reused in two steps. Scientists from the University of Cape Town in South Africa are showing the CO2-friendly bricks.
A huge steam cleaner has done what toxicologists have been dreaming of for decades: removing virtually all toxins from contaminated soil. Since September 2018, chemists from the Krüger company have been testing groundbreaking technology on a 40-tonne sand mountain in a poisonous depot in the town of Harboøre on the west coast of Denmark.
Plastic is everywhere: in oceans, in the air in large cities and in our drinking water. And now it is also popping up in places where there are no people at all, namely in highly isolated areas of the North Pole. That sad discovery was made by British researchers, who saw large pieces of plastic and polystyrene (better known as styrofoam) floating in a lake.
We are well on our way to get all the drinking water on earth through, according to a NASA study. Measurements from space organization's GRACE satellites show that our planet's underground freshwater reservoirs are being emptied faster than they can refill. Researchers had been under the impression that we used up our water spookily quickly, but it was not possible to prove this before.
Meat is packaged in plastic, the lid of your coffee to go is made of plastic, and your furniture probably also contains a lot of plastic. Plastic is practical and cheap, but also problematic, because it is only broken down very slowly. The mass production of plastic started in the early 1950s and since then production has been increasing year after year.