Tag: plastic
Plasma Gasification Promises the World, Fails Everywhere—Pune Was No Exception
The idea was seductive: turn Pune’s mountains of garbage into clean hydrogen fuel. The city’s waste problem would be solved, and India would get a head start in the global hydrogen economy. That was the pitch when Pune Municipal Corporation and The Green Billions Limited announced India’s first waste-to-hydrogen project … [continued]
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India-EU Hydrogen Partnership Flagship Project Collapsing Due to Ruinous Economics
The EU-India Clean Energy and Climate Partnership included a plan to develop a waste-to-hydrogen facility in Pune, led by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and The Green Billions Limited (TGBL). The ₹450 crore ($54M) project was intended to process 3.8 million metric tons of waste using Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) and … [continued]
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I’ve Got Microplastics On My Brain — And So Do You
What’s this? Microplastics entering human brains? Yup. The results of a new study published in Nature Medicine point out that tiny fragments of plastic are passing the blood-brain barrier and entering into human brains. Moreover, the amount of microplastics in the brain appears to be increasing over time. “There are … [continued]
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Trail-blazing London esthetics clinic expanding to Toronto: ‘It’s become the norm’
A longtime London medical esthetics clinic is expanding to downtown Toronto, responding to booming demand in an industry becoming more accessible and inclusive. Yazdani Aesthetics, a full-service plastic surgery and non-surgical esthetics clinic in London for 15 years, is opening a location in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood, an expansion more than 18 months in the making. […]
United States and Canada are urged to do more microplastic research in the Great Lakes region
They’re everywhere — those tiny bits, shards, and pieces of plastic, barely large enough for the human eye to see.