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When the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month for addressing marine litter, it named five Asian nations—China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam—as ...

For Tara Pelletier, it came down to deodorant. Her company, Meow Meow Tweet, had developed a formula for deodorant that she loved. It worked, it smelled great, and it was ready to make its way out ...

Most plastics are made from chemicals that come from petrol, gas or coal. They are made by heating these chemicals at a high temperature. When the plastic is soft it can be poured into a mould. Once ...

"UMass Lowell is among the nation's leading centers for plastics technology, and its Plastics Engineering program...is helping to push new boundaries of how these versatile materials are used, ...

In resolution 5/14, UNEA-5.2 requested the UNEP Executive Director to convene an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic ...

Abstract: We establish the dataset of X-ray image for weld defects called WDXI. WDXI consists of 13,766 X-ray images, including seven significant types of weld defects. The images of metal plates, ...