Hard-to-Recycle Waste Forms Lightweight Concrete for Paving Roads and More in Hungary

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hard-to-recycle-waste-forms-lightweight-concrete-for-paving-roads-and-more-in-hungary/

Hard-to-Recycle Waste Forms Lightweight Concrete for Paving Roads and More in Hungary

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hard-to-recycle-waste-forms-lightweight-concrete-for-paving-roads-and-more-in-hungary/

#goodnews #goodearth #business #plastic #construction #materials #recycling #Hungary

Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-discover-lab-gloves-are-skewing-microplastics-data/

#goodnews #goodearth #science #plastic #pollution #research #Michigan

"Once Dried up and Full of Plastic, Canal in India Is Now Clear and Lined with Mangroves"

#India #Environment #Plastic #Plastics

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/once-dried-up-and-full-of-plastic-canal-in-india-is-now-clear-and-lined-with-mangrove-trees/

Paper just out in ISME J

Wang et al.
AHL-mediated quorum sensing drives plastisphere formation and elevates pathogenic potential

https://academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismejo/wrag066/8539701

#plastic #pollution

🧪 🥼 Scientists finally develop a plan to clean up the massive North Pacific Garbage Patch 🚯 🌊

The new modeling turns a symbol of environmental failure into a defined engineering campaign, with known bottlenecks in steering, retention, and source control.

If those bottlenecks improve, the world’s largest open-ocean trash patch may stop being permanent and start looking solvable.

#Science #Pollution #Plastic
#FossilFuels #Environment

https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-develop-a-plan-to-clean-up-the-massive-north-pacific-garbage-patch/

Scientists Discover Lab Gloves Are Skewing Microplastics Data – Perhaps By A Lot

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-discover-lab-gloves-are-skewing-microplastics-data/

New U.S. Government Plan for Microplastics Falls Short of Protecting Human Health https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/4/2/new-u-s-government-plan-for-microplastics-falls-short-of-protecting-human-health

#UnitedStates #USA #US #environment #health #PublicHealth #plastic #PlasticPollution #pollution

The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/the-dark-side-of-the-balloon-boom-is-it-time-they-were-banned

#environment #plastic #PlasticPollution