Despite its status as the world’s No. 1 corporate plastic polluter, Coca-Cola won’t be phasing out its single-use plastic bottles anytime soon. The reason? Customers like them too much, the company’s head of sustainability Bea Perez told BBC News at the World Economic Forum…
Date Archives January 2020
Here’s why air pollution affects mental health
Air pollution has affected humankind since the beginning of civilisation. Paleopathological studies have shown the presence of carbon deposits and other pollutants in the lung of Egyptian mummies. Following the industrial revolution, air pollution became…
Take a deep breath. Really? Is it safe for my lungs?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) confirmed that outside air pollution is a cause of cancer. Tiny dust-like particles millionths of a metre wide, called ‘particulate matter’, make up a part of outside…
Clear Evidence: What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health
Research explains the connection between diet, mood, and cognition. If there’s one concept health researchers have come to agree on it’s this: What you eat matters. Although they don’t always agree on what constitutes a…
Rheology in Green Technology
Rheology studies how matter flows, usually in its liquid state but also as “soft solids”. The technique has been applied in the last century in fields as diverse as materials science, engineering, geophysics, physiology, human…
Why recycling is not a solution
As someone who grew up and lived in PA until 2 years ago, I always found myself in opposition to PA’s aggressive stance on recycling; to me, it’s always seemed like a modern-day version of…
Tesco’s plastics purge: what took so long and is it enough?
Campaigners welcome common-sense move but say companies need to be bolder Tesco is to remove 67m pieces of plastic from its shelves from March by doing away with the plastic wraps commonplace on multibuy packs…
Air pollution linked to poor brain development in kids
Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) during early childhood is associated with structural changes in the brain at the age of 12, according to a study that warns that the pollutants may affect physical and…
Is your cell phone dangerous to your health?
Have you ever been walking along while looking at your cell phone and nearly run into someone or something? If so, you’re not alone. It happens to me all the time. If I veer into…
Could Green Hydrogen Become the ‘New Oil’?
On this week’s Interchange podcast, we sort through the renewed interest in hydrogen from renewables. Less than 1 percent of all hydrogen produced today comes from renewables. Is that about to change? The vice president…