'What would you have us do?': The plastic credits problem
Twice a day, sirens sound at Cambodia's Chip Mong Insee cement kiln, warning limestone will soon be blasted from the karst ...
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Mess of Hot Oil and Melting Plastic Provides Much Needed Cooking Lesson for Students
College students in Cardiff, Wales, learned the hard way that hot cooking oil needs to be cooled down before being transferred to a plastic container. Footage filmed and posted to TikTok by Oliver ...
Nvidia’s new RTX GPU is melting PCs… again
Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs are here, but you might want to hold off on buying one after users report melting power connector issue.
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The ‘recycled’ plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill.
In the public’s mind, and to many governments and industry groups, recycling happens any time a used product is refashioned into something new. It’s this definition that allows so many T-shirts, tote ...
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‘Spontaneous combustion’ of oily rags caused yacht fire, says Ports of Jersey
Ports of Jersey (PoJ) has issued a safety bulletin reminding yacht owners about the importance of being particularly vigilant ...
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First Alert Forecast | Melted snow and ice will refreeze tonight
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Temperatures are plummeting back into the 20s and 10s overnight. If there is any moisture left on roads, it will refreeze. Be on the lookout for slick spots; mainly ...
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Melted Onions Recipe
Onions as a side dish? Yes, especially when they’re deeply caramelized, soft and sweet. That’s the case for these melted onions from Lindsay Maitland Hunt’s cookbook, Help Yourself. They’ve been a ...
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Plastic supercapacitors could solve energy storage problems
As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...
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Mum says 'never use them' after hot water bottle melted her skin
Karen told PA Real Life: “When I first could see the skin, I had blisters coming up straight away, and then you could see where the skin just melted away. “There were holes in the skin but ...
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Sleeping mats made of pure plastic given to the unhoused
Medford United Methodist Church members are making sleeping mats out of plastic. They use all types of plastic to make the mats. The plastic is cut in a certain way and then formed into plastic yarn.
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Plastic constitutes 91% of marine litter in Manila Bay – group
plastic pollution, and sustainable disposal practices; adoption of standardized cleanup methods, as outlined in the Manual for Beach Litter Monitoring Program, to improve data collection and cleanup ...
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What Happens When a Plastic City Burns
But this time, the urban landscape is different: Modern homes are full of plastic, turning house fires into chemical-laced infernos that burn hotter, faster, and more toxic than their predecessors.