When plastic waste breaks down into the smallest fragments, less than 1 micrometer wide—or 1,000 times finer than human hair—it can’t be detected at wastewater treatment plants. But researchers have ...

A team of researchers from Pakistan and Australia has developed adsorbents in the form of powder, capable of removing microplastics and other contaminants from wastewater at a lightning speed. The ...

A magnetic powder that can rapidly suck out all the microplastics in water could be used by water treatment plants to better remove the contaminants. At present, most of these plants can remove only ...

[Photo: Mike Warren, Instructables] In its current form, Silly Putty isn’t quite as silly as the name suggests. Add in some ferric powder, like what Instructables user Mike Warren did, and now you’re ...