Plastic washing at recycling plants can spike phthalates in wastewater, study suggests

Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're ...
The Westside Journal

It’s the dirtiest spot in the washing machine, yet it only takes a minute to clean.

Your washing machine works hard every week, yet it hides some seriously dirty secrets. Most people assume the appliance cleans itself during every cycle. That assumption is wrong, and certain spots ...

Washington County inspections: Shower rod holding a piece of ice machine to prevent it from falling

Violations marked as priority contribute directly to the elimination, prevention or reduction in the hazards associated with ...
The Verge

Investigating the 61-pound machine that eats plastic and spits out bricks

As a kid, I went door to door collecting cans to earn some pocket change. Today, I still take pride in recycling. I slice cardboard boxes down to size each Sunday, and make sure every viable plastic ...
IEEE

Machine learning on multisensor data from airborne remote sensing to monitor plastic litter in oceans and rivers (PlasticObs+)

Abstract: This paper presents the main ideas and initial findings of the PlasticObs+ project. The long-term goal of the project is to develop an airborne based method for monitoring plastic waste on ...