Single-use packaging is one of the biggest contributors to plastic waste, and reuse has been identified as a key strategy reduce such waste. However, reusable containers typically become worn, which may influence how consumers think feel about reuse. The present research explored whether evaluations takeaway food service changed depending on appearance container. Two studies were conducted (usi...

Abstract Providing garden water sources (e.g., ponds, bird baths) has become a popular and strongly promoted form of wildlife-friendly gardening, yet evidence their use by animals is scarce limited to few taxa source types. We examined the prevalence, variety potential value animal wildlife supplementary provided within gardens Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, using an online questionnaire field ...

Plastics are one of the most important technical materials at present, yet they associated with a whole series environmental problems such as micro-and nanoplastics or their plasticizers, which have become increasingly relevant in recent years. While there many studies that focus on microplastics (MPs) introduced into human body through commercially produced food, nearly none consider MPs we in...

Abstract At the outset of Olympian 7, Pindar figures ode currently being performed to phorminx and pipes as an all-gold phiale ‘plashing within with dew vine’ (1–12); elsewhere, poetic voice addresses his chorodidaskalos a ‘sweet kratēr loudly-sounding songs’ ( Ol . 6.91). This paper proposes that we take these equations between songs cups, bowls, containers more generally at most literal level...