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08/18/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Useful way to repurpose invasive weeds: Water hyacinth, an invasive plant to river ecosystems, may prove useful for oil sorption

Those thick clumps of water hyacinth clogging our waterways might be useful for something, after all. A Thai study suggested that the invasive floating plant can be turned into biodegradable adsorption materials that can clean up oil spills better than polypropylene-based sorbents. The findings were published in the International Organization of Scientific Research. Polypropylene is a […]

11/30/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Polypropylene — toxicity, side effects, diseases and environmental impacts

Polypropylene plastics break down when they are exposed to high temperatures that are typical of the manufacturing process, especially when they are presented with a common mineral filler called talc. List of known side effects Polypropylene can give rise to the allergic reactions that people exposed to it have. Body systems affected by polypropylene Polypropylene […]

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