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Amazon Great Freedom Festival 2025: Best Water Purifier Deals you Can’t MissThe Amazon Great Freedom Festival 2025 is here, and it's bringing some of the best water purifier deals you can’t miss. Whether you are loo...
02 Aug, 2025, 11.23 AM IST
10 Best Copper Water Purifiers in India: Purity, Health Benefits and Advanced Filtration Technology (2025)Copper water purifiers are a game-changer in the realm of water filtration, combining cutting-edge purification technologies with the natur...
11 Jul, 2025, 11.04 AM IST
Your food packaging may be feeding you plastic — even that tea bag could be a culpritResearch reveals food packaging releases plastic particles. Microplastics contaminate common foods and drinks. Opening packages, cartons, o...
26 Jun, 2025, 09.57 PM IST
10 Best RO Water Purifiers in India for Pure, Safe and Refreshing Water (2024)The best RO water purifiers listed below are designed to deliver exceptional water quality by combining advanced filtration technologies su...
16 Sep, 2024, 11.06 PM IST
FSSAI launches project to address microplastic contamination in Indian food productsFSSAI launched a project to tackle microplastic contamination in food, starting in March. The initiative involves collaboration with key re...
18 Aug, 2024, 04.13 PM IST
Your salt and sugar packets contain harmful microplastics: Iodised salt has the highest, rock salt lowest, study findsA study by Toxics Link found that all tested Indian salt and sugar brands contain microplastics. The research revealed various forms of mic...
14 Aug, 2024, 11.52 AM IST
The reality of recycling is appalling. But we can fix it.Recycling has been called a "myth" and "beyond fixing" as we've learned that recyclables are being shipped overseas and dumped (true), are ...
04 Dec, 2023, 09.41 AM IST
Microplastics : What are they, its harmful impact and solutionMicroplastic pollution has become a major environmental and health concern due to their proliferation in oceans and their presence in every...
05 Jun, 2023, 05.56 PM IST
Are potato chip bags recyclable? Snack companies try new packagingCompanies that aren’t moving towards plastic-free packaging yet may be forced to in the future, as regulators start to step in. But the hur...
27 Mar, 2023, 11.02 PM IST
Eat out of takeaway containers or drink from plastic bottles? You are unknowingly ingesting microplastics dailyOn average, humans take in 0.1-5 g of microplastics weekly through various pathways.
06 Feb, 2023, 06.16 PM IST
To trash or not to trash: Futility of the recycling symbol and plastic conundrumThe unhelpful symbol is just one aspect of a recycling system that is far too confusing to be broadly effective.
23 Apr, 2022, 02.45 PM IST
IIT Guwahati researchers develop hollow fiber membrane to remove micro-plastics from seawaterProf. Kaustubha Mohanty and Dr. Senthilmurugan Subbiah, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati, have recently published the resul...
20 Apr, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
You are eating plastic in salt, finds IIT-Bombay studyThe study revealed that Indians are consuming about 117 micrograms (0.117 milligrams) of microplastic annually if the average person has a ...
04 Sep, 2018, 12.30 PM IST