Trip Advisor, Plastic Water Bottles

Sorting Plastic Bottles for Recycling

Scrambling Eggs in Plastic Bottles

This issue of PLoS Genetics contains the second of two important papers describing the high levels of meiotic failure caused by exposure of female mice to a chemical known as Bisphenol A (BPA) [1]. In the first article [2], Pat Hunt and her collaborators demonstrated high levels of meiotic failure in females exposed to BPA, suggesting that BPA exposure affects maturing oocytes. This conclusion ...

Community challenges when using large plastic bottles for Solar Energy Disinfection of Water (SODIS)

BACKGROUND Communities living in developing countries as well as populations affected by natural or man-made disasters can be left at great risk from water related diseases, especially those spread through the faecal-oral route. Conventional water treatments such as boiling and chlorination can be effective but may prove costly for impoverished communities. Solar water disinfection (SODIS) has ...

Peacox - Persuasive Advisor for CO2-Reducing Cross-Modal Trip Planning

We present the objectives and first results of the Peacox project. Peacox aims at providing travelers with personalized multi-modal navigation tools that allow, help and persuade them to travel and drive ecological friendlier. To support the users in making travel decisions without feeling restricted, Peacox considers their situational and individual range of acceptable travel choices and provi...

Endocrine disruptors in bottled mineral water: total estrogenic burden and migration from plastic bottles.

BACKGROUND, AIM, AND SCOPE Food consumption is an important route of human exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. So far, this has been demonstrated by exposure modeling or analytical identification of single substances in foodstuff (e.g., phthalates) and human body fluids (e.g., urine and blood). Since the research in this field is focused on few chemicals (and thus missing mixture effect...