Teenager's Science Fair Project May Deliver Us From Plastic

I bought groceries at Trader Joe's the other day. As anyone who has ever shopped there knows, Trader Joe's is full of incredibly attractive, cheap food, which, if you manage to make it through all the plastic packaging it comes in, you can actually eat. Unfortunately, by the time I started cooking I had more or less lost my appetite, since every time I discarded one of those packages I felt like I dropped another circle in hell.

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The Dirty Truth About Plastic

Plastics are one of the most useful and ubiquitous products in modern society. Scientists are now working to find out if they're among the most dangerous, as well.

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