Physicists Unlock a New Way to Bend Light, Bringing Superlenses and Cloaking Closer to Reality
Scientists have found a way to achieve negative refraction—where light bends the "wrong" way—using carefully arranged atomic arrays instead of engineered metamaterials. This breakthrough has enormous ...
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You're Probably Eating a Credit Card's Worth of Plastic Each Week. Here's How to Minimize Exposure
Research shows people may be ingesting approximately 5 grams of plastic weekly. Try these easy swaps in your kitchen to ...
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What Is Recycling? The Definition Is So Broad That It Allows Corporations to Dupe Consumers
which says that recycling means processing something “in order to regain material for human use.” For the experts and entrepreneurs who favor a broad definition of recycling, it’s obviously better to ...
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Deep Dive: Is Hong Kong plastic bag levy working? Some shops, online retailers, wet market stalls ignoring rules
The Consumer Council discovered that almost half of the retailers they checked did not follow Hong Kong’s plastic bag levy. It is telling shops to use less packaging for their items and give ...
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Tax on single-use plastics seen raising prices of goods for consumers
Asia Packaging Federation president Joseph Ross Jocson on Tuesday said this is what happened when the government banned the use plastic bags in the past and replaced them with the much more ...
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Plastic bag ban left N.J. with 65K extra reusable bags. Here’s where they went.
which stemmed from the “Get Past Plastic Law,” barred grocery stores and most other kinds of stores in New Jersey from handing out single-use bags, be it paper or plastic, at the counter.
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Iowa City family resorts to using plastic bags to use the bathroom after losing water for days
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - People living in one mobile home park have resorted to using plastic bags to go to the bathroom. That’s because they have been without running water for three days now.
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No more plastic shopping bags? Bill wants to make them illegal at Virginia grocery stores
(WRIC) — Virginia grocery stores could be forced to do away with plastic shopping bags ... This means restaurants would be allowed to use plastic bags for carryout or delivery and pharmacies ...
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Credit card for IPOs? Explore the truth behind using plastic to invest in the market
When it comes to the payment methods accepted for IPO applications, the use of credit cards is a common query. Let us understand in detail whether or not you can buy an IPO using a credit card.
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Goodwill of KYOWVA no longer using single-use plastic bags
HUNTINGTON — Goodwill Industries of KYOWVA Area Inc. announced in December that it would be going plastic free starting New Year’s Day. This means customers have to bring their own bag ...
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Your Tea Bag Might Be Shedding Billions of Microplastics
García-Rodríguez recommended using loose-leaf tea with a stainless steel infuser or a reusable filter, also made of stainless steel. Unfortunately, tea bags made of biodegradable plastic are ...