#biodegradable — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #biodegradable, aggregated by home.social.
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Plastic That Is Not a Plastic: Redefining Circularity in Open-Plan Design
Bolete Lounge BIO® by Andreu World x Patricia Urqu…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #biodegradable #Biomaterials #CA #Canada #CircularDesign #color #Design #Entertainment #FurnitureDesign #hospitality #InCollaboration #InteriorArchitecture #InteriorDesign #Materials #patriciaurquiola #RecycledMaterials #Residential #ResilientbyDesign #seating #Workspace
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/32365/ Anti Aging Micellar Water Market in the United Kingdom | Report – IndexBox #AntiAgingMicellarWater #Biodegradable/EcoFriendlySurfactantSystems #ConsumerGoodsMarketReport #EncapsulationForActiveDelivery #FirstStepFacialCleansing #forecast #MakeupRemoval #MarketAnalysis #MicelleSurfactantStabilization #PostWorkoutSkinRefresh #PreservativeFree/MultiDosePackaging #QuickMorningCleanse #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Plastic That Is Not a Plastic: Redefining Circularity in Open-Plan Design
Bolete Lounge BIO® by Andreu World x Patric…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #biodegradable #Biomaterials #CircularDesign #color #Design #Entertainment #FurnitureDesign #Hospitality #InCollaboration #InteriorArchitecture #InteriorDesign #Materials #patriciaurquiola #RecycledMaterials #Residential #ResilientbyDesign #seating #UK #UnitedKingdom #Workspace
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Plastic pollution in shooting ranges and warfare areas - an overlooked environmental issue
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic contamination, such as heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, plastic wads or landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun #ammunition, alternative materials (#biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771
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Plastic pollution in shooting ranges and warfare areas - an overlooked environmental issue
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic contamination, such as heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, plastic wads or landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun #ammunition, alternative materials (#biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771
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Plastic pollution in shooting ranges and warfare areas - an overlooked environmental issue
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic contamination, such as heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, plastic wads or landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun #ammunition, alternative materials (#biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771
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Plastic pollution in shooting ranges and warfare areas - an overlooked environmental issue
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic contamination, such as heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, plastic wads or landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun #ammunition, alternative materials (#biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771
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Plastic pollution in shooting ranges and warfare areas - an overlooked environmental issue
"Shooting ranges and military training fields, including warfare-impacted areas, have been widely recognized as environmentally impacted zones by inorganic and organic contamination, such as heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or explosive-related compounds. However, the possible contamination by plastics and #microplastics in soil has been widely overlooked despite potential plastic sources, such as #ShotgunCartridges, plastic wads or landmines. Due to how these activities occur, plastics have remained in the field for decades or centuries, favoring their conversion from macro to microplastics, polluting the soil and water resources. Moreover, shooting and recreational activities such as #airsoft or #paintball practices could also be a substantial source of plastics to ecosystems; once shot, pellets can have conventional or biodegradable plastics in their composition, and there left in the environment, favouring impacts on soil properties. Although some initiatives have emerged to avoid the use of single-use plastics in shotgun #ammunition, alternative materials (#biodegradable plastics) can also be a potential risk, favouring the heavy metal bioavailability of shot pellets. These emerging pollutants should also be considered in these areas to understand if they could be a potential source of micro- and nanoplastics to the environment and, therefore, an environmental concern that requires changes at industrial and regulatory levels."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935125008771
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Young people play a vital role in protecting the #environment and supporting sustainable #food production.Here, we are carefully separating #biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials, a practice known as #waste management Biodegradable materials, can decompose naturally and be transformed into compost manure that enriches the soil. This process is essential for improving #soil fertility and increasing #crop production sustainably
#climateAction #photography #nature #mastodon #socialimpact -
#PolylacticAcid is a #biodegradable #plastic that can be broken down into oligomeric lactic acid (OLA) #nanoplastics. This study shows that OLA particles can accumulate in the #placenta & #fetus in pregnant mice, inducing placental vascular dysplasia & fetal growth restriction @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4bR4e6W
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Stop binning cardboard because it has clever garden use https://www.allforgardening.com/1593018/stop-binning-cardboard-because-it-has-clever-garden-use/ #Biodegradable #cardboard #CardboardPackaging #EcoFriendly #EcoFriendlyPlantPots #FlowerPots #garden #gardening #organic #seeds #SimonAkeroyd #sustainability #sustainable #SustainableGardening #tiktok #WayToGrow
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Researchers from Empa, EPFL and CSEM have developed a green smart #sensing tag that measures #temperature and #humidity in real time – and can also detect whether a temperature threshold has been exceeded. In the future, this could be used to monitor sensitive shipments such as medicines or food. The sensor tag itself is completely #biodegradable
#MaterialScience #Technology #sflorg
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China's new bamboo plastic biodegrades in 50 days, an impressive technological feat. However, we must question if the CCP uses such progress to legitimise their rule and distract from historical censorship and abuses.
#china #technology #bambooplastic #biodegradable #environment #sustainability #politics #censorship #ccp #tiananmen #humanrights #innovation #legitimisation #progress #news #asia #criticalthinking #media #awareness
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China's new bamboo plastic biodegrades in 50 days, an impressive technological feat. However, we must question if the CCP uses such progress to legitimise their rule and distract from historical censorship and abuses.
#china #technology #bambooplastic #biodegradable #environment #sustainability #politics #censorship #ccp #tiananmen #humanrights #innovation #legitimisation #progress #news #asia #criticalthinking #media #awareness
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How to Bark Tan Hide
Co-authored by Mike Stramiello
Last Updated: March 10, 2025"Bark tanning is the ancient process of creating a durable, water-repellent leather by tanning animal hide with tree bark. Bark tanning takes several months to complete but will result in a finished leather that you can use to create clothing, hinges, saddles, boots, wallets, bags, and other leather items. If you create the tree bark liquor or solution with the right ingredients, prepare the animal hide correctly, and use the right process to dye the hide, you can bark tan cattle, horse, buffalo, or pig hides.
White oak gives the leather a yellowish shade while chestnut oak turns hides a dark brown. Hemlock bark will give the leather a dark reddish-brown color." [No reason to use chrome or other dye chemicals -- make do with what nature provides!]
Things You’ll Need
- Hides
- Tree bark
- Water
- Wood chipper/shredder
- Plastic container
- Dull knife
- Salt
- Hydrated lime [which could be made from crushed, heated seashells -- more about that in another post]Learn more:
https://www.wikihow.com/Bark-Tan#SolarPunkSunday #AnimalProducts #TanningLeather #Leather #VegetableTanning #Biodegradable versus #Microplastics #Pleather
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Okosix will show its biodegradable plastic at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
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#ClassAction #Lawsuit Claims #Revlon #MakeupRemover Pads, #Towelettes Falsely #Advertised as #Biodegradable
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Many #recycling programs are a farce. Every #recycler has a huge list of wants/don't wants. The little triangles on things are.....wtf? It's TOO #COMPLICATED for the #masses. Fuck recycling.
#Biodegradable materials are where it's at. People are lazy. The solution MUST also be #lazy. If the general public need to think, they won't do it. That's why we have an orange clown taking a wrecking ball to the #planet.
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Koodugal Trust conducted a Skill Development Program at RPC School, empowering students to create their own String Art products using only biodegradable materials.💡 “This kind of training gives me the confidence to do more innovative work in the future.” #KoodugalTrust #SkillDevelopmen #Sustainability #Biodegradable #StringArt #YouthEmpowerment #EcoFriendly #EducationForChange #HandmadeWithLove
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#Okra and #Fenugreek Extracts Safely Remove #Microplastics From Water in New Texas Research
May 10, 2025
"The substances behind the slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds could trap microplastics better than a commonly used synthetic polymer.
"Texas researchers proposed in 2022 using these sticky #NaturalPolymers to clean up water. Now, they’ve found that okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and removed up to 90% of microplastics from #ocean water, #freshwater, and #groundwater.
"With funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Rajani Srinivasan and colleagues at Tarleton State University found that the plant-based polymers from okra, fenugreek, and #tamarind stick to microplastics, clumping together and sinking for easy separation from water.
"In this next stage of the research, they have optimized the process for okra and fenugreek extracts and tested results in a variety of types of water.
"To extract the sticky plant polymers, the team soaked sliced okra pods and blended fenugreek seeds in separate containers of water overnight. Then, researchers removed the dissolved extracts from each solution and dried them into powders.
"Analyses published in the American Chemical Society journal showed that the powdered extracts contained #polysaccharides, which are natural polymers. Initial tests in pure water spiked with microplastics showed that:
- One gram of either powder in a quart (one liter) of water trapped microplastics the most effectively.
- Dried okra and fenugreek extracts removed 67% and 93%, respectively, of the plastic in an hour.
- A mixture of equal parts okra and fenugreek powder reached maximum removal efficiency (70%) within 30 minutes.
- The natural polymers performed significantly better than the synthetic, commercially available polyacrylamide polymer used in #wastewater treatment."Then the researchers tested the plant extracts on real microplastic-polluted water. They collected samples from waterbodies around Texas and brought them to the lab. The plant extract removal efficiency changed depending on the original water source.
"Okra worked best in ocean water (80%), fenugreek in groundwater (80-90%), and the 1:1 combination of okra and fenugreek in freshwater (77%).
"The researchers hypothesize that the natural polymers had different efficiencies because each water sample had different types, sizes and shapes of microplastics.
"Polyacrylamide, which is currently used to remove contaminants during wastewater treatment, has low toxicity, but its precursor #acrylamide is considered #toxic. Okra and fenugreek extracts could serve as #biodegradable and #nontoxic alternatives.
" 'Utilizing these plant-based extracts in water treatment will remove microplastics and other pollutants without introducing additional toxic substances to the treated water,' said Srinivasan in a media release, 'thus reducing long-term health risks to the population [and the environment].
"She had previously studied the use of food-grade plant extracts as non-toxic flocculants to remove textile-based pollutants from wastewater and thought, ‘Why not try microplastics?’"
Source:
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/plant-based-filter-removes-up-to-99-9-of-microplastics-from-water/#SolarPunkSunday #PlasticPollution #Plastics #Pollution #PollutionSolutions #WaterIsLife #Remediation
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#Scientists in #Japan develop #plastic that dissolves in #seawater within hours
While scientists have long experimented with #biodegradable #plastics, researchers from RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the Univ of Tokyo say their new material breaks down much more quickly and leaves no residual trace.
Team doesn't have plans for commercialisation, project lead Takuzo Aida said their research has attracted significant interest, including from packaging sector.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/scientists-japan-develop-plastic-that-dissolves-seawater-within-hours-2025-06-04/ -
Make DIY Conductive, Biodegradable String Right In Your Kitchen https://hackaday.com/2025/03/28/make-diy-conductive-biodegradable-string-right-in-your-kitchen/ #chemistryhacks #WearableHacks #biodegradable #conductive #alginate #wearable #pendant #how-to #dress #led
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Make DIY Conductive, Biodegradable String Right In Your Kitchen - [ombates] shares a step-by-step method for making a conductive bio-string from scr... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/28/make-diy-conductive-biodegradable-string-right-in-your-kitchen/ #chemistryhacks #wearablehacks #biodegradable #conductive #alginate #wearable #pendant #how-to #dress #led
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SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .Mar 21st, 2025
#MRI #amnesia #hippocampus #engrams #sustainable, low-carbon #waste #Portland #TGF #relativistic #electrons #positrons #safety-critical #confidence-sharing #dyad #spatiotemporal #biodegradable #gene #promoter #D-LDH
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The Ultimate Guide to #PlasticFree Tea Bags UK
Are your tea bags really plastic free and biodegradable?
We investigate what makes a #tea bag #biodegradable and #plastic free. Yes, it’s confusing, because even when tea companies say their bags are ‘biodegradable’ or ‘plant-based’, it can still contain a type of #bioplastic (PLA)
https://www.zerowasted.co.uk/plastic-free-tea-bags
#plastics #Microplastics #PLA #TeaBags #eco #CornStarch #GMO
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#3M, a multibillion-dollar chemicals giant, marketed its firefighting foams as harmless and #biodegradable, despite knowing they contained #toxic #foreverchemicals —substances so persistent they've been banned in many countries. #EnvironmentalPollution #ToxicChemicals #CorporateResponsibility #PFAS #EnvironmentalJustice #EcoHealth #Sustainability
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#Banana yields fruit only once, afterwards the whole tree has to be discarded. It creates a lot of waste without #upcycling e.g. into #BananaFibre, one of the most absorbent #fibres available.
Current innovations aim to use this fibre for #textile (jeans), but it could be used for so much more, e.g. producing #biodegradable and #compostable #SanitaryPads.
An interview with Kristin Kagetsu, co-founder of Saathi, pioneering this #sustainable #PlasticFree product.(15 min)
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#DITF and #FILK develop a new type of pure #artificial #leather that meets the high requirements of the European Ecodesign Regulation. It is #biodegradable and fulfills the requirements for a closed #recycling process.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/06/07/synthetic-leather-made-from-recyclable-and-bio-based-pbs -
#DITF and #FILK develop a new type of pure #artificial #leather that meets the high requirements of the European Ecodesign Regulation. It is #biodegradable and fulfills the requirements for a closed #recycling process.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/06/07/synthetic-leather-made-from-recyclable-and-bio-based-pbs -
Exploring #OpenSource #biofoam as novel #material for tangible interaction:
-water-soluble
-#biodegradable
-can be made #conductive
-possible application: #human #computer #interfacehttps://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533494
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#UK ad watchdog to crack down on ‘#biodegradable’ and ‘#recyclable’ claims
Consumers left angry and dismayed when they found out the truth about these terms, says #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/04/ad-regulator-to-crack-down-on-biodegradable-and-compostable-claims-aoe
#ASA #TooLittleTooLate #ClimateChange #Environment #Sustainability #Greenwash -
happy #earth day my arse, all #humans need to do is stop #participating in #capitalism and #trashing the fucking #ecology, #capitalists and #fascists are #biodegradable, start by making the #planet better by #feeding them back to the earth...
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Some #goodNews for #singleUse #plasticFilm
#waterSoluble #biodegradable made from #potatoStarch