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Collection, clean-up, create awareness: Tamil Nadu begins year-long...
As per a TNPCB release, the drive will consist of 3 key components – a plastic collection drive, clean-up drive, and awareness activities aimed at...
A shape-shifting plastic with a flexible future
3 Feb 2024 7:00 PM ISTResearchers have created a new type of plastic with properties that can be set with heat and then locked in with rapid cooling. Unlike classic...
Vikas Lifecare picks up 50 pc stake in UAE-based entity
18 Jan 2024 3:42 PM ISTVikas Lifecare recycles plastic waste to manufacture pallets and interlocking tiles for industrial applications.
Bottled water contains thousands of previously unknown nanoplastics:...
9 Jan 2024 2:45 PM ISTIn recent years, there has been rising concern that tiny particles known as microplastics are showing up basically everywhere on Earth -- from polar...
Researchers develop new method to tackle polyethylene waste
10 Dec 2023 12:15 PM ISTMost of the plastics used today end up being discarded and accumulated in landfills.
Plastic contaminant may raise risk of autism, ADHD: Study
29 Sept 2023 6:15 PM ISTThe team measured the efficiency of glucuronidation in three groups of children in the US: 66 with autism, 46 with ADHD and 37 healthy children.
HC frowns over Railway’s plastic use
28 Sept 2023 6:15 AM ISTA HC bench directed the Railways to file a report on the steps taken to exterminate the use of plastic in trains, even as it wanted the transporter to...
Tiny parasitic wasp can drill through plastic
22 Sept 2023 6:00 PM ISTOf the 56 wasps the researchers raised, eight drilled holes in the plastic, including three who did so even though a perfectly good host was sitting...