Lotte Chemical suspends production at Daesan plant due to power outage, plans gradual resumption of operations
#YonhapInfomax #LotteChemical #DaesanPlant #ProductionHalt #PowerOutage #Polyethylene #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=52094

Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests

"The exponential rise in microplastic pollution over the past 50 years may be reflected in increasing contamination in human brains, according to a new study."

"The human body is widely contaminated by microplastics. They have also been found in blood, semen, breast milk, placentas and bone marrow. The impact on human health is largely unknown, but they have been linked to strokes and heart attacks".
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/03/levels-of-microplastics-in-human-brains-may-be-rapidly-rising-study-suggests
#plastics #anthropogenic #microplastics #nanoplastic #contamination #MNP #polyethylene #PolymerBasedParticulates #body #OneHealth #pollution

5 firms in #plastic #pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’ 5 #oil and #chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from #environment produced 132m tonnes of it, analysis finds #fossilfuels #oceans - two types of plastic; #polyethylene (#PE) and PP (#polypropylene) in five years – more than 1,000 times the weight of the 118,500 tonnes of waste plastic the alliance has removed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/20/five-firms-in-plastic-pollution-alliance-made-1000-times-more-waste-than-they-saved-analysis-shows #ExxonMobil #Dow #Shell #TotalEnergies #ChevronPhillips

The Best, Longlasting Hip Replacement Implants: Which manufacturers market these desirable joint replacements and which models are preferred? #hip #replacement #prosthesis #revision #ceramic #zirconium #polyethylene
https://www.instagram.com/p/DChply1vvV3/

New publication: The comparison effect on #earthworms between conventional and biodegradable #microplastics.
#sustainablelanduse #oxidativestress #polyethylene #soillife #agriculturedepartment
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e37308

https://undark.org/2024/08/21/plastic-waste-transformed-into-food-for-humans

@MichiganTech system begins with a…shredder, which reduces…to small shards that then move into a reactor, where they soak in #ammoniumhydroxide under high heat. Some #plastics, such as #PET, which is commonly used to make disposable water bottles, break down at this point. Other plastics used in military food packaging — namely #polyethylene and #polypropylene — are passed along to another reactor, where they are subject to much higher heat and an absence of oxygen…

Marine Fungi Decompose Polyethylene

Fungus found on floating plastic debris in the ocean has the potential to degrade polyethylene to CO₂

https://www.chemistryviews.org/marine-fungi-decompose-polyethylene/

#sustainability #plasticwaste #marinefungi #polyethylene #science #chemistry # chemistryviews

"evidence of microplastics in human semen"

micoplastic's getting solved by old men in governments around the world in 3,2,1

https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/112597914969820872

Research published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, detected eight different plastics. #Polystyrene was most common, followed by #polyethylene, used in plastic bags, and then #pvc

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724036696
NMP Pollution of Placenta
https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/199/1/81/7609801?

#Nanoplastics #Microplastics #Pollution #endocrine disruption #Toxicology

In recent years, Russia has seen an increase in the production of ethylene polymers in primary forms. Polyethylene production in Russia increased from 26.6% to 33.02% of the total plastic production from 2018 to 2023. In 2023, 3,536 thousand tons of ethylene polymers in primary forms were produced in Russia, which is +1.5% more than the production volume of the previous year.

https://globaltribune.net/the-largest-producers-of-polyethylene-in-russia

#chemicalindustry #polymers #polyethylene #cis #russia

Raman Microspectroscopy evidence of microplastics in human semen

Research published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, detected eight different plastics. #Polystyrene was most common, followed by #polyethylene, used in plastic bags, and then #pvc

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724036696

NMP Pollution of Placenta
https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/199/1/81/7609801?

#Nanoplastics #Microplastics #Pollution #endocrine disruption #Toxicology

Study identifies #fungus that breaks down ocean plastic
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-fungus-ocean-plastic.html

#Biodegradation of #polyethylene by the marine fungus Parengyodontium album https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724029668

"A fungus living in the sea can break down the #plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers expect that many more plastic degrading #fungi are living in deeper parts of the #ocean."

Just playing with #bubblewrap and thinking that it’s not so much air that absorbs incident force but the #polymer film of the bubble. You can feel the #modulus of the material as you press on it. Air doesn’t respond like that, but a pretensioned #polyethylene film does. #polymers #materials #materialscience #chemistry #cantturnitoff #AlwaysThinkingAboutPolymers

New study suggests #microplastics found in the blood stream could raise risk of stroke & heart attack: >50% of the fatty plaques removed from blood vessels of patients with arterial disease had deposits with tiny #polyethylene or #PVC particles.#plastic

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822

“By 1958, polyethylene hoops sucked up one-third of the nation’s production of a new high-density #polyethylene” from #Plastics An Autobiography by Allison Cobb (p182-3)

Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study | Plastics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/27/microplastics-found-every-human-placenta-tested-study-health-impact

#Microplastics
#Placenta
#Foetus
#UnbornBaby
#HumanBlood
#BreastMilk
#Faeces
#Poo
#IBD
#InflammatoryBowelDisease
#ToxicologicalSciences
#PVC
#Nylon
#Polyethylene
#CapitalMedicalUni
#China
#NewMexicoUni

[ Researchers engineer bacteria that eat plastic, make multipurpose spider silk ]
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-bacteria-plastic-multipurpose-spider-silk.html #Polyethylene #Bacteria

#HyPrSpace received funding 💶 from #France 2030, a #French 🇫🇷 government fund that invests in innovative technologies.
#BaguetteOne 🥖 should take flight in the beginning of 📆 2026 and aims to put small #satellites 🛰️ up to 250 kilograms into #orbit. The solid fuel ⛽ component can use recycled ♻️ #polyethylene, a common plastic https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/12/12/french-baguette-one-rocket-project-gets-funding-to-launch_6335565_7.html

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-potentially-chemical-byproducts-left-sunlight.html

#polystyrene…produced "a higher diversity of chemicals" than the #polyethylene and #polypropylene.

"Once you #photodegrade them—especially, polystyrene—the chemicals can recombine and produce hundreds of different chemicals."

"The microlayer covers the whole ocean, which represents 70% of the Earth's surface…If you alter the chemistry of that layer, you're altering the barrier between sea and air, and altering the exchange of material including climate-active gases."

Be amazed by the unlimited applications of plastic !
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Polyethylene microplastics affect :
✔- survival Rate
✔- food Intake
✔- oxidative stress

A big thankyou from our
freshwater snail "Indoplanorbis exustus"

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00128-023-03813-6

#microplastics #freshwaterbiology #polyethylene

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-023-01673-3

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#Polyethylene #terephthalate (PET) tape is widely used by well-known #lithium-ion #battery manufacturers to prevent electrode stacks from unwinding during assembly. PET tape is selected since it has suitable #mechanical and #electrical properties, but its #chemical stability has been largely overlooked.