#Plastic

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Plastic is a very complex material that can contain many different chemicals, some of which can be harmful. This is also true for plastic food packaging. "We found as many as 9,936 different chemicals in a single plastic product used as food packaging," said Martin Wagner, a professor at NTNU's Department of Biology. Wagner has been working with chemicals in plastic products for several years. He is part of a research group at NTNU that has now published its findings in two articles in Environmental Science & Technology. Ph.D. candidates Molly McPartland and Sarah Stevens from NTNU are the lead authors of both studies. In one study, the researchers looked at 36 different plastic products that are used to package food. These products came from five countries; the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Germany and Norway. "In most of these plastic products, we found chemicals that can affect the secretion of hormones and metabolism," Wagner said.

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RABBIT SEVEN BY MEGASCULPTURE

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““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life...

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

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Hassan Ragab: Recycled Plastic Art Nouveau Facade Chairs (2023)

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By Engraving Found Plastic Waste, Duke Riley Links Extractive Practices Throughout Human History

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TOOTSIE TOY MR.BUBBLE SWISS BUBBLE BLOWER | LISTING

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One fish saved | source

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Let's Go Party

Collab Comic with the wonderful people from Rewriting Extinction. Go check them out and support their cause.

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Yoshitomo Nara: I Don’t Mind If You Forget Me (2001)

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It took 90 days for the fungi to degrade 27 per cent of the plastic tested, and about 140 days to completely break it down, after the samples were exposed to ultraviolet rays or heat.

Chemical engineering professor Ali Abbas, who supervised the research team, said the findings were significant.

"It's the highest degradation rate reported in the literature that we know in the world," the professor said. 

From ABC News Australia

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