The billions of plastic straws consumed in the UK each year will be banned from April 2020. The move will also cover plastic drinks stirrers and cotton buds Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2204076-plastic-straws-will-be-banned-in-england-from-april-2020/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Scientists Went to One of the World’s Most Remote Island Atolls. They Found 414 Million Pieces of Plastic
Researchers dug holes in the sand. The holes were filled with plastic. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65520-plastic-pollution-cocos-islands.html
American Explorer Completes Deepest Submarine Dive In History
schwit1 quotes the maritime industry news site gCaptain: A private equity investor from Dallas, Texas and his team of explorers have completed a series of record-breaking dives to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, commonly known as the deepest place on earth. The initial record-setting dive took took place on April 28 when American, Victor Vescovo, a retired U.S. Navy officer,…
Why Airpods Are An Environmental ‘Tragedy’
Vice’s “Future Relics” column asks what people 1,000 years from now will think when they keep discovering abandoned Airpods from 2019:
For roughly 18 months, AirPods play music, or podcasts, or make phone calls. Then the lithium-ion batteries will stop holding much of a charge, and the AirPods will slowly become unusable. They can’t be repaired because they’re glued together. They can’t…
Does Recyling Work?
“It’s a complicated question,” admits a New York sustainability advocate:
If an item in a bin of recyclable materials is greasy, covered in food or, in the case of paper goods, soaking wet, the entire bin is typically rejected and sent to the landfill or incinerated… While we want to do the right thing, most of us don’t know all the rules….
Microplastics found in remote Pyrenees Mountains
Microplastic particles – too small for the human eye to see – were blown into the once pristine region by the wind, according to a new study. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/microplastics-found-pyrenees-mountains…
Cobalt for 500,000 electric cars could be harvested from the oceans
Enough cobalt for hundreds of thousands of electric car batteries could be collected by dangling plastic balls from disused oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2201637-cobalt-for-500000-electric-cars-could-be-harvested-from-the-oceans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The Weird and Mysterious History of the Ouija Board
Of all of the ways of supposedly contacting the dead and the world beyond what we see, by far the most widely available and easy-to-use is the Ouija board. It has variously called a party game or a potent window to another realm, and has been the basis for numerous movies, books, and TV shows…. Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/05/the-weird-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board/…
Biodegradable Bags Buried for 3 Years Are Still Usable
Olivia Rosane – Are biodegradable consumer products a sham? Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/30/biodegradable-bags-buried-for-3-years-are-still-usable/…
Pakistani Scientists Discover Fungus that Can ‘Eat’ Plastic
Luke Miller – This mushroom could be the solution to the global plastic problem. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/23/pakistani-scientists-discover-fungus-that-can-eat-plastic/…