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11/06/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Contact lenses contributing to the microplastic pollution of our waterways

If you are getting rid of your old contact lenses, put them in the trash instead of flushing them out of sight. Discarded lenses in wastewater might be raising the amount of toxic microplastics that contaminate waterways and aquatic life, an article in Science Daily stated. Nothing lasts forever. This is especially true for contact […]

05/21/2018 / By David Williams

Chemists have just found a new and relatively unknown flame retardant in the environment

Flame retardants are known to cause plenty of problems despite their apparent usefulness in everyday items. Now, there is new evidence that suggests the flame retardant problem may be a lot bigger than earlier thought. Chemists working at Indiana University have discovered an entirely new flame retardant, and they found it out in the environment. […]

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