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Yangtze river pollution sparks panic in China

A cargo ship spilled acid into China's longest river last week, contaminating tap supplies and sparking a run on bottled water in eastern China, the government and state media said.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Philippine solar light bottles offer hope

Filipino entrepreneur Illac Diaz is aiming to help a million poor people in a year, and with the help of some plastic bottles and a clever social media campaign may do even better.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 8

BPA spikes 1,200 percent after eating canned soup: study

People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 percent compared to those who ate fresh soup, US researchers said on Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 11

Formula-fed babies at risk in emergencies: New study finds how to better prepare and protect infants

(Medical Xpress) -- Recent natural disasters in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United States have shown even in developed nations infants - especially those fed formula - are vulnerable. Now a new study has found detailed ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Plastic bottles solve Nigeria's housing problem

The idea undoubtedly seemed strange at first: take the plastic water bottles that litter Nigeria's roads, canals and gutters and allow people to live inside them.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9

Environmental toxin Bisphenol A can affect newborn brain

Newborn mice that are exposed to Bisphenol A develop changes in their spontaneous behavior and evince poorer adaptation to new environments, as well hyperactivity as young adults. This has been shown by researchers at Uppsala ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Tsunami debris found 3,000 km from Japan coast

A Russian ship has found debris from the Japanese tsunami, including a fishing boat, floating adrift in the Pacific thousands of kilometres from the disaster zone, a Hawaiian research group said.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Message in a bottle: Professor's letter surfaces 14 years later

Perhaps, the lucky numbers of his stateroom – 711 – inspired his experiment. Leaving Honolulu far behind on the way to French Polynesia sometime after the equatorial crossing ceremonies aboard Holland-America’s ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Chemical makers say BPA no longer used in bottles

(AP) -- Makers of the controversial chemical bisphenol-A have asked federal regulators to phase out rules that allow its use in baby bottles and sippy cups, saying those products haven't contained the plastic-hardening ingredient ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New standard specification may facilitate use of additives that trigger biodegradation of oil-based plastics in landfill

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite efforts to encourage the recycling of plastic water bottles, milk jugs and similar containers, a majority of the plastic packaging produced each year in the United States ends up in ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

France sees labelling of contested chemical BPA

France's ecology minister on Tuesday said she would seek labelling requirements for food containers made with bisphenol A (BPA) after a watchdog agency sharpened its concern about this chemical.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At long last, new plastics for baby bottles, shopping bags, and much more

With most of the plastics that define modern life dating to the1930s-1960s, a new breed of these ubiquitous materials are starting to gain a foothold in products ranging from teapots to potato chip bags to plastic plant pots ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Toxic BPA turning up in children's soup cans: group

Worrying levels of BPA, an industrial chemical with suspected links to cancer, lurk inside canned soups and pasta targeted at American children, the Breast Cancer Fund said Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Light from a water bottle could brighten millions of poor homes (w/ video)

As simple as it sounds, a one-liter plastic bottle filled with purified water and some bleach could serve as a light bulb for some of the millions of people who live without electricity. Originally developed ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (55) | comments 53 | with audio podcast weblog

'Plastic bottle' solution for arsenic-contaminated water threatening 100 million people

With almost 100 million people in developing countries exposed to dangerously high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, and unable to afford complex purification technology, scientists today described a simple, inexpensive ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Bottle

A bottle is a rigid container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth". By contrast, a jar has a relatively large mouth or opening. Bottles are often made of glass, clay, plastic, aluminum or other impervious materials, and typically used to store liquids such as water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, cooking oil, medicine, shampoo, ink, and chemicals. A device applied in the bottling line to seal the mouth of a bottle is termed an external bottle cap, closure, or internal stopper. A bottle can also be sealed by a conductive "innerseal" by using induction sealing.

The bottle has developed over millennia of use, with some of the earliest examples appearing in China, Phoenicia, Rome and Crete. The Chinese used bottles to store liquids. Bottles are often recycled according to the SPI recycling code for the material. Some regions have a legally mandated deposit which is refunded after returning the bottle to the retailer.

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