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This article explores the different types of plastics, highlighting their distinct properties and applications. Image Credit: Pixel B/Shutterstock.com Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic ...

In an eye-opening episode of BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth, presenters Helen Czerski and Tom Heap discuss the problem. With the ...

Richard Lord has been logging items washed up on Guernsey beaches since January 2018 A marine biologist has recorded more types of plastic bottle washed up on Guernsey's beaches than the total ...

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A marine biologist has recorded more types of plastic bottle washed up on Guernsey's beaches than the total variety of fish in UK waters. In the last seven years Richard Lord said he had logged ...

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This startling mechanism for promoting depolymerization relies on an additive that many plastics already contain: a pigment called carbon black that gives plastic its black color. Through a process ...