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Engineered Porous Carbon Traps Cancer-Causing Benzene From Air and
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (72+ words) Benzene is one of the most insidious chemicals that ordinary people encounter every day. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies it as a Group 1 human carcinogen, meaning there is established evidence that it causes cancer in humans, with…...
New Carbon-Borate Nanocomposites Strip Toxic Dye from Water
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (605+ words) A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia has developed a family of multiphase nanocomposites that can pull one of the most stubborn textile dyes out of contaminated water with remarkable efficiency. Writing in the Journal of the Saudi Chemical Society,…...
Blow-Spun PVDF–Clay Nanofiber Membranes Strip Lead and Copper From Water
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (714+ words) Heavy metal contamination of rivers, groundwater, and industrial effluents remains one of the most stubborn environmental problems of the modern era, and a new study from Brazilian researchers offers a fresh twist on an old idea: using polymer membranes to…...
Ten-Second Flash Reaction Turns Toxic Fluorine Waste Into Valuable
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (797+ words) Fluorine is one of chemistry’s most paradoxical elements. It gives us life-saving pharmaceuticals, robust agrochemicals, non-stick cookware and high-performance electronics, yet the fluorine-bearing waste that these industries and products leave behind ranks among the most stubborn and dangerous pollutants on…...
Forever chemicals break apart into fluoride under UV treatment, revealing a cleanup roadmap
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (14+ words) Phys.org...
Keter: Reinventing what plastic can be
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (305+ words) Ynetnews From the familiar molded chair to furniture, storage and modular living spaces, Keter has spent decades transforming a simple material through technology and design â making resin look and feel increasingly like wood, rattan and other natural materials Some…...
Guest column: Further conversation: why plastics are almost indestructible
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (401+ words) Published 5:30 am Sunday, September 6, 2026 Note: The Cowichan Lake and River Stewardship Society is authoring three articles through this summer about this important topic. This is the second. Imagine working in your vegetable garden in early spring. You’ve defined your patch…...
Meet Moroti Adegboyega, the 17-Year-Old Who Wants to Clean up Plastic by Making It Magnetic
1+ week, 2+ day ago (514+ words) His strange “black goo” and the robot he built could point toward a smarter way to clean polluted water....
Chemists have turned a hard-to-recycle plastic into valuable oil
2+ week, 18+ hour ago (1188+ words) A new chemical process gives PVC waste a surprising second life, turning everyday plastic products into a potentially valuable material. A pipe under a kitchen sink and the credit card that pays for groceries are made of the same type…...
How microbes strip halogens from organic pollutants
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (529+ words) Deep in contaminated soil and groundwater, some of the most stubborn synthetic chemicals on Earth are being quietly dismantled by organisms barely a micrometer across....