Plastic bottles with a capacity of 2.3 litres contain the most liquid for the lowest packaging weight and could reduce plastic waste by thousands of tonnes per year Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2269358-plastic-bottles-holding-2-3-litres-are-least-harmful-to-the-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Mars rovers safe from lightning strikes, research finds
If experiments done in small bottles in a University of Oregon lab are accurate, the friction of colliding Martian dust particles are unlikely to generate big electrical storms or threaten the newly arrived exploration vehicles or, eventually, human visitors. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-mars-rovers-safe-lightning.html…
Coca-Cola Begins Testing a Paper Bottle
“Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely,” reports the BBC: The prototype is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner. But the goal is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated…
Cheers! French wine, vines headed home after year in space
The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-french-wine-vines-home-year.html…
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle Named Top Plastic Polluters For Third Year In a Row
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlé have been accused of “zero progress” on reducing plastic waste, after being named the world’s top plastic polluters for the third year in a row. Coca-Cola was ranked the world’s No 1 plastic polluter by Break Free From Plastic in its annual audit, after its beverage bottles were…
‘I Tried the World’s First No-Kill, Lab-Grown Chicken Burger’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: PhD in genetics might seem like an unusual requirement for the role of head chef. It makes more sense when the man running the kitchen is not just in charge of frying your chicken burger — he created the meat himself. “This burger takes something between two to three days to grow,”…
Plastic bottles dumped in rivers can travel thousands of kilometres
Tracking the movements of plastic bottles released along the Ganges river shows they can travel as far as 3000 kilometres in less than 100 days. Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261333-plastic-bottles-dumped-in-rivers-can-travel-thousands-of-kilometres/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tesla Tequila Sells Out Within Hours, Triggers Bidding Wars on eBay
Thursday Tesla’s web site began selling $250 bottles of Tesla-branded tequila, describing it as a “small-batch premium 100% de agave tequila anejo made from sustainably sourced highland and lowland agaves.” Electrek explores the frenzy that followed: The product sold out in hours after it appears on Tesla’s website and even before Elon Musk could tweet a link to the Tesla Tequila…
Elon Musk’s Tesla Tequila Will Run You $250 a Bottle
A Tesla-branded tequila, which is being described as a “small-batch premium 100% de agave tequila anejo made from sustainably sourced highland and lowland agaves,” is now being sold on the automaker’s website for $250. It comes in a handblown glass bottle shaped in the electric charge symbol. TechCrunch reports: The tequila first popped up in April 2018 when Musk tweeted a…
Plastic baby bottles shed millions of microplastics when shaken
The plastic bottles used to feed babies shed an average of 4 million microplastic particles per litre into infant formula, but the impact on child health is unclear Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257599-plastic-baby-bottles-shed-millions-of-microplastics-when-shaken/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…