Bethesda blogger Nutgraf reports on the results of a four-month long experiment into the photodegradation of six-pack rings

He even has a handy Youtube video on what mostly-photodegraded six-pack rings look like after four months in the suburban Maryland sun:

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From the experiment:
The experiment ran from August 3 to December 6, so this is what ( Read more... )

It appears that scientists in New Zealand have mastered a way of using sewage to make biodiesel fuel The method actually involves processing the algae already present in sewage-treatment pools, and they expect at least a million liters of biodiesel a year from one sewage treatment plant ( Read more... )