Tag: plastic
Why do scientists advise against drinking from reusable plastic bottles?
To hydrate at the office, in transport or in full effort, nothing like a reusable plastic bottle? Not so sure warn us today of the chemists because these bottles then…
Samsung is making its new Galaxy smartphones out of… fishing nets
By 2025, Samsung promises to use recycled materials in all new mobile products. It starts this week with the new range of Galaxy smartphones introduced on February 9. The Korean…
Plastic leaf catchers, Chinese frying pans and braided textiles, the new artwork by Tanja Smeets
Kunsthal KAdE presents the exhibition ‘Abrasive Paradise’, in which twelve contemporary artists are invited to reflect on the utopian ideal of a constructible world, within a world that turns out…
How the Vertuoso start-up strives to eliminate plastic from the oceans
If the wastewater is taken care of by well-developed sanitation systems, the rainwater in which all urban waste is found ends up flowing without filter into the sea. The start-up…
Species take advantage of plastic waste in the ocean to cross ecological barriers
Since the Japanese tsunami of 2011, scientists suspect that coastal species may be able to surf plastic waste to find themselves living in the open sea. Thus breaking down biogeographical…