Air pollution outside is easy to spot, hanging over the city, or sputtering from a tailpipe. But there's lot of indoor air pollution, too, even if it's not as obvious. It's caused by volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. They can come from building ma

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It's the fossilized resin of ancient pine trees. And trapped within it, are perfectly preserved souvenirs, each fragment helping to build a picture of an ancient world. This resin has also trapped som

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Cleaning and sorting plastic made out of multiple polymers can be relatively expensive, 清理和将多种聚合物制成的塑料进行分类的成本相对昂贵, especially if it is used to make low value products such as packaging. 尤其是这些

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If all goes well, the inventors hope to develop the idea and make the sections entirely from recycled plastic. 如果一切顺利,那么投资者希望开发此想法并完全利用回收垃圾制造这些节段。 Paths, car parks and railway plat

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Of all the plastic produced since the 1950s, less than 10% has been recycled. 20世纪50年代以来,产生的所有塑料中,只有不到10%得到回收。 The vast majority ends up being dumped, most of it in landfill. 其中大部分都成了垃

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Indoor air pollution is a common threat to human health, the new study looked at five common house plants and found that when it comes to removing harmful chemicals from the air, those five plants are better than others. 室内空气污染对人类健康

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