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fromFuturism
5 days ago
OMG science

You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You'd Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packaging

fromFuturism
2 months ago
Environment

Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You've Been Slurping

OMG science
fromFuturism
5 days ago

You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You'd Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packaging

Skepticism grows in the scientific community regarding microplastics research due to potential methodological errors and contamination issues.
fromFuturism
2 months ago
Environment

Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You've Been Slurping

#recycling
fromWIRED
1 week ago
Gadgets

Can a Home Appliance Fix the Problem of Soft-Plastic Waste?

Clear Drop's Soft Plastic Compactor offers a unique solution for recycling soft plastics but may not be practical for average consumers.
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago
Environment

This company tries to recycle the really difficult plastics

Ridwell collects hard-to-recycle household items from porches, sorts them for specialty recyclers and thrift shops, charging a subscription while facing environmental skepticism.
Gadgets
fromWIRED
1 week ago

Can a Home Appliance Fix the Problem of Soft-Plastic Waste?

Clear Drop's Soft Plastic Compactor offers a unique solution for recycling soft plastics but may not be practical for average consumers.
DevOps
fromMedium
2 weeks ago

The Bridge to Bulletproof: Connecting Alloy, Synthetics, and IRM for ShopFast

Integrate infrastructure monitoring, global synthetic probes, and centralized alerting into a comprehensive 24/7 production system that maintains revenue protection while preventing team burnout.
Intellectual property law
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

HP releases firmware updates that trigger lockout chips, preventing third-party cartridge use, contradicting its sustainability claims and EPEAT 2.0 environmental standards.
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Plastics, fertilizers, clothing, medicines and electronics: $100-a-barrel oil has huge downstream consequences | Fortune

Crude oil is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons - molecules made mainly of carbon and hydrogen. Refineries and chemical plants separate and transform these molecules into smaller chemical building blocks known as petrochemicals. Some of the most important petrochemical building blocks include chemicals such as ethylene, propylene and benzene.
Environment
OMG science
fromwww.nature.com
3 weeks ago

Polymers with purpose: molecules can squirm free of the pack

Densely packed long molecular chains like chromosomes can move past neighboring molecules through crawling motion, according to computer simulations and theoretical modeling.
fromFuturism
1 month ago

The Economics of 3D Printed Homes Are Surprisingly Horrible

According to the outlet SlashGear, the neighborhood encompasses five 1,000-square-foot houses just north of Sacramento. Each domicile is produced by a hulking concrete printer worth about $1.5 million, which took about 24 days to spit out the first house. In the future, 4Dify expects the whole process to take about 10 days, but that isn't what's astonishing about the Yuba County neighborhood - it's the price tag.
Real estate
fromFast Company
1 month ago

These designers made a sustainable new building material from corn

This corn-based construction material was made by Manufactura, a Mexican sustainable materials company, and it imagines a second life for waste from the most widely produced grain in the world. The project started as an invitation by chef Jorge Armando, the founder of catering brand Taco Kween Berlin, to find ways he could reintegrate waste generated by his taqueria into architecture. A team led by designer Dinorah Schulte created corncretl during a residency last year in Massa Lombarda, Italy.
Science
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

5 Countries Just 3D-Printed Homes in Under a Week: The Future Is Here - Yanko Design

Traditional construction is often marked by inefficiencies like material waste, labor intensity, and long project timelines that push up the final cost per square foot. In contrast, 3D printing, or Additive Manufacturing in Construction (AMC), introduces a fundamentally different approach, shifting from subtractive to additive building processes. Its central ambition is to make housing more accessible by lowering material and labor costs while enabling faster delivery of structurally sound, architecturally considered homes.
Tech industry
Bicycling
fromBikeMag
2 months ago

What the Future of Bicycle Manufacturing Look Like According to Experts

American bicycle manufacturing faces tradeoffs between domestic craftsmanship and overseas scale, challenging small framebuilders to balance quality, identity, and business viability.
#3d-printing
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Polyester clothing has been causing a stir online. But how valid are the concerns?

Your eyes don't deceive you. The use of polyester has ballooned with time, according to Henry Navarro Delgado, an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University's school of fashion. It's partly because polyester can be quite useful, he said. It is a type of plastic made from petroleum compounds that are cooled and stretched into yarn, according to Michael Palladino, a fashion industry veteran and lecturer at Kingsborough Community College's business of fashion program in New York.
US news
fromZDNET
2 months ago

I didn't need this, but I used AI to 3D print a tiny figurine of myself - here's how

That's today's project. In this article, I'll show you how I started with a picture of me, used some intermediate AI, and turned it into a physical 3D plastic me figurine. Do I need a me figurine? No. Is it cool? Yeah. Does it show off another AI capability? Yep. I'll be honest. I didn't expect my editor to sign off on this pitch.
Artificial intelligence
Science
fromFast Company
2 months ago

These molecules are remaking manufacturing

Advances in catalysts and enzymes are transforming plant-based processing into precise, energy-efficient, foundational infrastructure for lower-carbon manufacturing.
fromEarth911
2 months ago

Recycling Mystery: Black-Colored Plastic

Black plastic gets its color from carbon black pigment and is commonly used in food containers, such as meat or produce trays and take-out containers, as well as disposable coffee lids, plastic bags, and hard plastic items like DVD cases and planters. While plastic is one of the categories of things that we are encouraged to recycle - when we can't reuse or repurpose it - not all black plastic items can be recycled.
Environment
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
2 months ago

AtomForm Palette 300 3D Prints in 36 Colors With 12 Dedicated Nozzles - Yanko Design

AtomForm Palette 300 is a 12-nozzle, enclosed 3D printer built to combine up to 36 colors and 12 materials in a single print. It uses a rotating OmniElement automatic nozzle-swapping system, where each nozzle stays dedicated to one filament. AtomForm claims that the approach cuts filament waste by up to 90% by avoiding constant purging, while still hitting 800 mm/s print speeds and 25,000 mm/s² acceleration in a 300 × 300 × 300 mm enclosed cube.
Gadgets
Environment
fromEarth911
2 months ago

The State of Plastic Bottle in 2026

Major beverage companies' sustainable plastic packaging goals have been scaled back, while PET recycling rates remain low and vast quantities of bottles go to landfills.
Environment
fromNature
2 months ago

Defossilize our chemical world

Achieving net zero requires eliminating fossil fuels while sourcing carbon for fuels and chemicals from sustainable, circular, non-fossil sources.
fromWIRED
2 months ago

Bambu's P1S Combo 3D Printer Setup Keeps Me Tinkering

Before printing, the Bambu also sweeps and levels the bed in a grid, and warns you if it hits any obstructions like leftover supports or an errant bed scraper. I've checked out several printers with an auto-level before, but they were slower, and usually required a second check by hand before actually hitting go. I haven't had to adjust anything on the P1S in the month or so I've been using it, with the printer handling the initial setup, regular re-leveling, and nozzle cleaning.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Recycled plastic packaging claims are misleading, say experts

Europe's supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging as sustainable, but often only a fraction of the materials are truly recovered from waste, with the rest made from petroleum. Brands using plastic packaging from Kraft's Heinz Beanz to Mondelez's Philadelphia use materials made by the plastic manufacturing arm of the oil company Saudi Aramco. The Saudi state-owned holding opposes production cuts under the UN plastic treaty and is the world's largest corporate greenhouse-gas emitter (over 70m tonnes up to 2023).
Environment
fromThe Mercury News
2 months ago

Best rubber band

Rubber bands come in all shapes, colors and sizes, and quality can range significantly between brands. You can buy a smaller pack or buy in bulk, so the pack you choose to purchase can vary depending on your needs.
Gadgets
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

compostable plastic bags made of seaweed are designed to break down and not be recycled

They write, 'through clever processing changes, this material is now stronger, more beautiful, and available in higher volumes at a lower price point.' The design remains the same with the frosted look, and this time, it can carry loads better but still lasts only as long as it's needed. After use, the bags can be placed in home compost or industrial compost systems, where they break down into healthy soil.
Environment
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