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Closing the Cycle on Single-Use Plastics

RICHLAND, Washington, February 25, 2023 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Petroleum-based plastic waste is an untapped resource that can serve as the starting material for useful durable materials and for fuels. But looking at a mountain of plastic waste and seeing its value “requires an innovator’s mindset, a chemist’s ingenuity, and a realist’s understanding of the economics involved,” says an international team of scientists in describing their new research.

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Blue-Green Algae Commit Suicide at South Africa’s Setumo Dam

MAHIKENG, South Africa, October 27, 2021 (Maximpact.com News) – A new technology that removes harmful algal blooms from water bodies without damage to other life has succeeded in cleaning up the toxic blue-green algae that for decades has infected the reservoir behind Setumo Dam on South Africa’s Molopo River.

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Pesticide Alarm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reversed its decision to protect children from developmental disabilities and autism resulting from exposure to a neurotoxic pesticide that was scheduled to be banned in March.

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