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Do You Really Need to Replace Your Vinyl and Laminate Floors Every 5 Years?
You might have seen the reports and videos flying around TikTok advocating against using vinyl and laminate flooring in ...
USA Today6d
Best laminate flooring
The best laminate flooring has a thick top layer, three to four core layers, and a quality click-lock system. Pergo is the leading laminate flooring brand with an extensive range of wood- and ...
Hindustan Times17d
India’s plastic crisis: The hidden emissions choking the country
With emissions spiralling and health impacts mounting, the time for half-measures is over, say experts; India must confront the scale of its plastic pollution Despite ongoing efforts to curb ...
C&EN19d
52 million tons of plastic slips into the environment every year
This discount is shown at checkout, if applicable. An estimated 52 million metric tons of plastic is spilling uncontrolled into the environment every year, according to a new study (Nature 2024 ...
bobvila20d
How to Paint Laminate
These bookcases are made of a particle board-like composite with a faux-wood laminate exterior. It was important NOT to sand too much since the surface is essentially paper, but it was important ...
The Indian Express20d
India generates highest plastic pollution in world: what a new study found
India contributes to a fifth of global plastic pollution, a study published in the journal Nature last week found. India burns roughly 5.8 million tonnes (mt) of plastic each year, and releases ...
The Conversation24d
Plastic pollution hotspots pinpointed in new research – India ranks top due to high levels of uncollected waste
Ed Cook is active across the waste management and plastic pollution sector. He has worked on projects funded by the World Bank, OECD, UKRI, BBSRC, UNOPS, Royal Academy of Engineering, Pew ...
CBS News24d
Houston's plastic waste, waiting more than a year for "advanced" recycling, piles up at a business failed 3 times by fire marshal
Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business ...
Smithsonian Magazine25d
Humans Pollute the Environment With 57 Million Tons of Plastic Each Year, Study Suggests
Put another way, that’s about 57 million tons (52 million metric tons) of plastic waste that was not properly disposed of—and pieces of it could now be floating in the ocean, sitting at the ...
PBS25d
The world is producing 57 million tons of plastic pollution per year, new study finds
The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study ...
The Washington Post25d
The world is burning an alarming amount of plastic, scientists say
The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent ...
Science Daily26d
New process vaporizes plastic bags and bottles, yielding gases to make new, recycled plastics
Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...