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Shave like its 1899

April 18, 2018

120 years ago a small town US salesman soaped his face to begin his daily shave with a cut throat razor whilst pondering whether there might be an easier way to shave. The salesman was King Camp Gillette and he would go on to invent one of the world’s most successful products – the safety…

3 sneaky stealth plastics

March 29, 2018

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If you want to avoid using so much plastic, it is pretty easy to see what has been wrapped or packaged in it. Some plastics are not so easy to identify (i.e. for recycling) but they still look and feel like plastic. Except there is a growing number of ‘stealth plastics’ in our lives –…

A great, big, tiny problem – Microplastic

March 15, 2018

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Scientific findings rarely make the headlines, but driving to work listening to Radio 2 (yeah, I know, I’m old) it was announced that the World Health Organisation is launching a major investigation after a small US study found microplastics in nearly all bottled water it tested. The study was carried out at the State University…

Plastic – the new hole in the ozone layer

March 6, 2018

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Remember 1985? I was only 4 but I remember it vividly, life was simpler (or maybe it just appeared to be). I remember sitting on the back of my mum’s bicycle as she took me to nursery, I had little hand-me-down shoes that my mum had painted red, we had scorching hot summers, snowy winters…