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Posts Tagged ‘BPA-free’
Climate Change, Pollution, Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Jun 9th, 2010,
There are 3 basic things that are generally considered bad in the green world: plastics, BPA in plastics, and excessive CO2 emissions. Imagine if some of these things could be combined and used for the greater good. It seems unlikely, right? Well, guess what? Scientists are currently working on this very thing and they are making progress. Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore have identified classes of organic chemicals that are capable of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and then be used to make BPA-free plastics. They discovered that “the coupling of epoxide with CO2 to…
Tags: BPA-free, capture, carbon dioxide, Climate change, co2, global warming, imidazolium, petroleum, plastic, research, Singapore
Green living, Oct 28th, 2009,
Yes, there is yet another type of water bottle out now and so far, this one seems to be different from the rest. WaterGeeks, a global water crisis-fighting company based in Western Canada, came out with a bottle that has its own filter system. While this filter system is not very useful in the great outdoors, it is very handy for those who live in towns or cities. The filters of these bottles are specifically for removing things like lead, chlorine and heavy metals, as well as tastes, odors and other tap water contaminates. I remember when I went to…
Tags: BPA-free, stainless steel, water bottle, WaterGeeks
