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An Israeli artist is trying to express his creativity using an unconventional, biodegradable material: orange molded peel.
The talented designer, Ori Sonnenschein from Wahat-al-Salam village in Israel has launched a line of eco-friendly, handmade products that have a few advantages, Inhabitat informs.
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21 December 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Seattle is now the fourth eco-friendly city in the state that has decided to adopt and implement a plastic bag ban and a 5% fee on paper bags.
This initiative has been launched in an attempt to reduce environmental pollution, by determining clients to consider reusable shopping bags a viable, greener option, the Ne... |
20 December 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Nature is a great source of inspiration for scientists worldwide. After inventing the tree-inspired solar arrays and the carbon-absorbing cement imitating coral reefs, experts though it is time to come up with a new sustainable material copying the resistance of insect cuticles to replace plastic in an efficient mann... |
17 December 2011
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More than 90,000 people from the US want trash, in the form of thousands of plastic bottles, to disappear from the Grand Canyon National Park. As a result, they have decided to gather more signatures to make sure a beautiful reserve won't be tainted by the drinking habits of millions of tourists. Therefore, an... |
2 December 2011
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Recycled materials can turn into amazing works of art into the hands of gifted environmental artists. This time, Susie MacMurray is under the spotlight, due to her visible eco-friendly passion for fashion. She tries to make the public opinion look at common items like balloons, fish hooks, hair nets and dressmaker&#... |
23 November 2011
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The plastic industry often implies a lot of mess. When companies cut plastic pallets into different shapes and sizes, one could spot a large amount of small pieces on the floor, which end up in the trash in most of the cases. Artist Kyle Douthit develops a completely different path, transforming tiny pieces into on... |
17 November 2011
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In 2009, Chris Jordan started manifesting his concern towards the faith of birds in Midway Atoll. He managed to capture the public opinion's attention after he showcased one of the most disturbing pictures I've ever seen.
Who would have thought that the two significant pieces of land, Sand Island and East... |
2 November 2011
06:38 GMT |
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It seems that a consortium of Russian investors have taken an interest in the troubles of a certain company that had, at one time, earned quite a bit of attention for its plastic semiconductors.Plastic Logic is one of those companies that fell on hard times because of marketing and industrial conditions even though ... |
18 January 2011
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Humans pollute the Earth and in the Pacific Ocean, between California and Japan, there is a lot of plastic trash floating around, but saying that this “Great Garbage Patch” is twice the size of Texas is highly exaggerated and completely unacceptable, according to an analysis by an Oregon State University ... |
5 January 2011
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Bio-oil is an ecological product and it will be cheap enough to compete with fossil oil in plastic manufacture, according to a team of scientists from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and featuring visiting scientists from Southeast University in China and the University of Nottingham, UK.Today, pyrolysis oil... |
26 November 2010
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A lone plastic bag was spotted floating 600 kilometers southeast of Canada, over the final resting place of what was once the biggest tragedy in history, the RMS Titanic.Oceanographer David Gall of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, is in charge of a comprehensive survey of the Titanic ... |
9 September 2010
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A company from New Zealand has successfully tested its new technology and produced 2,3 Butanediol, a compound out of which fuels and plastics can be made.The clean tech company LanzaTech, had already announced last year that it had been developing a microbe that digests carbon monoxide in waste gas from steel mills, ... |
28 August 2010
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Most plastic compounds in the world today are produced from chemicals that are derived from oil. Now, a new method allows for plastic to be turned back into the fossil fuel.The team that created the machine capable of doing so says that their invention could in the near future ensure that plastic residues no longer p... |
23 August 2010
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Researchers have recently published the results of an exhaustive research conducted on the Atlantic Garbage Patch, an area of the ocean that concentrates vast amounts of pollution derived from human activities. For years, various types of contaminants, mostly plastic debris, have accumulated into the brain, brought t... |
20 August 2010
05:53 GMT |
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The common chemical Bisphenol A (BPA) has been heatedly debated upon for quite some time now. Some researchers suggested that there seemed to be a link between exposure to this substance and a host of medical conditions, including diseases of the heart and the circulatory system, but other groups could not verify thi... |
14 January 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Wireless operator Orange announced recently the launch of mini SIM cards in Europe, becoming this way the first mobile phone operator on the continent to offer such products. According to the company, the launch of the new mini SIM cards is meant to offer it the possibility to reduce the amount of waste that is usual... |
10 July 2009
12:31 GMT |
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While most environmental campaigners in the world today are focusing their efforts on forcing governments to enforce sharper standards for pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, the issue of just how many gallons of petrol go into making the plastic parts of an average car is not in the spotlight. Seats, dashboards,... |
27 May 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Despite seeming a bit far-fetched, there are numerous innovations created by NASA for space flight that now find alternative applications in the field of medicine. One such invention is a “super plastic,” originally created for high-speed test flights, which has currently found a suitable application as p... |
7 May 2009
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There are those people who, despite all pieces of evidence pointing to the contrary, continue to claim that human-caused pollution plays no role in the global warming of our planet, and that wildlife on the ground and in the water is affected more by natural causes than by human activities. But about 400,000 Coastal ... |
11 March 2009
05:11 GMT |
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It's common knowledge that melamine and bisphenol-A are just two of the compounds that go into plastic that are certainly unhealthy, and potentially lethal for humans. The impact that plastic leaves on the environment is also long-lasting and harmful, so it would stand to reason that a large number of people are... |
5 January 2009
07:30 GMT |
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It is very hard to please the consumers of the toy market, especially recently, given all the fuss about the plastic health hazard, but also because generally toys are always prone to being swallowed, easily broken, sucked on, bitten (by fragile, milk teeth), smashed on hard surfaces or, perhaps the worst of all thin... |
3 December 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Plastics have been around, in one form or another, for about a century now. Nowadays, they are so much a part of life and material culture that people generally take them for granted. Of course, there's been the recent unfortunate event related to its toxicity (which has been somewhat resolved) and there's ... |
28 November 2008
09:26 GMT |
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When disaster strikes and nature wreaks havoc to all you hold dear, there's little hope left and not much you can do. The following few days are especially critical, when you're forced to rely on anything that the surroundings have to offer. Well, that's if you don't have the latest survival kit ... |
8 November 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Plastic, the worst kind of thrash, doesn't affect only people, as the latest research indicated, but it also has an impact on oceans and on their ecosystems, to a greater extent than one would imagine. In fact, large portions of the oceans are becoming synthetic, from all the slowly decomposing plastic items th... |
5 November 2008
09:19 GMT |
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It displays the contents of a newspaper, it's almost as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper, but it's far better than one. It is the e-paper, developed in Britain and produced in Germany.Regular newspapers will most definitely become extinct as early as next year. A credit card-thin plastic displaying dev... |
17 October 2008
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It's common knowledge that plastic-generating processes can have some pretty nasty chemicals created as a by-product. It's also known that some of these dangerous substances make their way into a few of the finished products, which account for a multi-billion dollar income for companies in the chemical indu... |
15 October 2008
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Besides the fact that they could save a lot of space from being filled with plastic bottles, the newly-found bacterial engineers can also turn cheap, environment-unfriendly PET plastic in bottles into a biodegradable type of plastic named PHA.One of the many applications of the PHA plastic is in medicine, where it co... |
22 September 2008
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A recent study that associated bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical compound found in plastic, with increased risk of heart diseases and diabetes had plastic production-related and plastic using companies act like cats on hot bricks, and currently, there is a race against the clock to find a proper, clinically-attested subs... |
18 September 2008
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Parts of the custom-made "Green Monster" used to cover the Boylston Street (Boston) retail store glass faade have fetched $500 on eBay, ifoAppleStore is reporting. The proceeds from the sale will go to the Boston-based boston2portland charity, which funds research on Parkinson's disease."The expensive, custom-mad... |
9 June 2008
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Typical laser diodes generally found in optical storing devices such as Blu-ray, DVD and CD players are currently being fabricated out of inorganic semiconductors like gallium arsenide, gallium nitride and other semiconductor alloys related to them. Now, researchers have demonstrated a class of plastic semiconductor ... |
27 May 2008
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Many contaminants have a more subtle effect than simply killing cells. Some mimic hormones, like sex hormones. A team from Yale School of Medicine has presented at the 2008 Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Annual Scientific Meeting held on March 26-29 in San Diego, California, a study detailing how synthet... |
2 April 2008
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Could you imagine a world without plastic? Everything around us is plastic, from the wrapping of our food and beverage bottles to clothes and the mouse you are touching right now. Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most common chemicals in plastics, from sunglasses, dental fillings and CDs to water and food containers a... |
1 April 2008
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The new foldable integrated silicon circuits developed at the University of Illinois could turn the brittle electronic devices we use today into elastic silicon and plastic circuits only 1.5 micrometers thick, that can absorb the mechanical stress applied on them without suffering any damage. The inventor of the devi... |
28 March 2008
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I don't know about you, but I have a feeling something is going on inside alien princess Rihanna's mind - something big. It may be a virus of sorts, or a recessive kinky alien gene that's just starting to kick in, otherwise I can't explain why her love of racy S&M outfits seems to be growing inste... |
28 February 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Bisphenol A (BPA) was investigated in the 1930s during the search for synthetic estrogens. Diethylstilbestrol proved more powerful than estrogen, so bisphenol A was not used as a synthetic estrogen. Currently, it is a primary monomer in polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. Bisphenol A is also employed as an antiox... |
31 January 2008
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We live in a world of plastic. All we eat or drink touches plastic. We handle plastics all the time. Our clothes can be made of plastic. But the plastic era comes with its toll on our health. Bisphenols, common in plastics, from sunglasses, dental fillings and CDs to water and food containers and shockproof baby bott... |
14 December 2007
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I have no idea why Michael Jackson doesn't stick to what he does best: good music. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think he's a landmark in pop history, an icon, an idol, whatever you want - but one thing cannot be denied: he doesn't score too many points in the looks department - not anymore, at le... |
12 December 2007
10:46 GMT |
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Plastics may be toxic, but this one could clean the atmosphere of green house effect gases. A specially developed plastic imitating cell membrane can take carbon dioxide out of natural gas, lowering the quantities of this greenhouse gas dumped into the atmosphere. The new material could also extract natural gas from ... |
25 October 2007
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Science fiction materials have turned real. Steel strong plastic has been created by a team at the University of Michigan by imitating the brick-and-mortar molecular structure of the seashells. But unlike steel, the new material is lighter and transparent, even if not stretchy enough. The new plastic is built of lay... |
5 October 2007
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Magic has turned into reality. A remarkable achievement has been made by an American team: the world's first real invisibility cloak, a device turning an object invisible in the visible spectrum. But don't get your hopes up: the technique works only in two dimensions and on a tiny scale so far.The new cloak... |
3 October 2007
03:49 GMT |
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Any physician, dietician, or fitness instructor will tell you that two factors are necessary to look good after the age of 20: diet and exercising. But if you're a couch potato aged 40, and your life's centered around alcohol, smoking and white nights, there is one last chance: plastic surgery. Only in 2006... |
29 September 2007
04:05 GMT |
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Plastic is everywhere around us, and nowadays we almost drink from nothing else than plastic containers. It's so fancy to carry with you a plastic bottle and drink your water / juice / soda little by little. But while US bottled water sales are going up by an annual 9.7 %, on a market estimated at approximately ... |
16 August 2007
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We live in an era of plastic. All around you is plastic. I bet not 5 minutes go by without you touching something made of plastic. Even your food and drink come wrapped in plastic. Now a panel of 38 researchers said that Bisphenol A - a main ingredient in hard plastics and one of the most common chemicals around us -... |
7 August 2007
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Glass, even the one used in windows, has always fascinated scientists and not only due to its transparency. Like other solids, such as acrylic and polycarbonate, glass has a weird structure, which is not crystalline but disordered at the atomic scale.Essentially, glass is a liquid frozen in time. This freezing, howe... |
27 July 2007
08:58 GMT |
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A new color-changing technology could have many practical applications, from letting you know if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to see if it changes hue, to showing you what food in your fridge is spoiled.Developed by scientists at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and the ... |
26 July 2007
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A new solid state laser could provide novel environmentally friendly lighting solutions, by using high-efficiency fluorescent laser dyes in a high temperature co-polymer matrix. Solid state laser use a solid gain medium, like glass or a crystalline host material, but this one uses a new one, plastic.The self-healing... |
23 July 2007
10:29 GMT |
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Plastics are probably the most widespread artificial material in the world, mainly due to the low price and incredible versatility which led to a rapid expansion of plastic compounds in almost all industry areas.However, there's one problem. The same characteristics that made plastic so popular today are the m... |
3 July 2007
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Plastic nanofibers are far superior to silicon components in terms of power consumption, radiation hardness and heat dissipation. These fibers, invisible to the naked eye, could be used in future applications like transparent electronic devices, self-cleaning surfaces and biomedical tools able to manipulate strands ... |
29 June 2007
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Plastics are made of semisynthetic polymerization products composed of organic condensation or addition polymers and may contain other substances to improve performance or economics. Their widespread use made them indispensable in almost all industry areas.There are methods by which plastics can be broken back down... |
27 June 2007
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Plastics are durable and degrade very slowly. One of the main advantages of this material is the low price and incredible versatility, which led to a rapid expansion of plastic compounds in almost all industry areas.The problem is that it's made of oil and should petroleum prices continue to rise, so will the c... |
27 June 2007
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