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Japanese plastic manufacturer Sanko to build their first American manufacturing facility in San Antonio, Texas

Japanese plastic manufacturer Sanko to build their first American manufacturing facility in San Antonio, Texas, creating hundreds of jobs for the local community. pic.twitter.com/BLcywyP0U9 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 17, 2026 Factcheck: According to Sanko Texas Corp.’s plans, the San Antonio facility is expected to finish construction by fall 2027 and begin operations in …

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Inventor who built machine to turn plastic into fuel disappears after warning he was under attack. No sightings since July 9. No police report. No answers.

Julian Brown turned grocery bags into diesel. He filmed it. Posted it. Called it Plastoline. Said it could scale with funding. Four working prototypes. He burned himself testing it. Kept going. Then stopped. His last post was July 9. Said he was under attack. Mentioned helicopters. Told followers to record everything. His license leaked online. …

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Plastic slabs sold to cure phone addiction

WE’VE HIT PEAK INSANITY: FAKE PHONES FOR REAL AD*ICTS Can’t stop doomscrolling? Now there’s a $20 solution: a slab of acrylic that does literally nothing – but feels like a phone. It’s called the Methaphone, and yes, people are now fake-scrolling plastic to cure their tech addiction. We’ve officially reached the point where pretending to …

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There’s now roughly a plastic spoon’s weight of plastic in your brain.

Plastic spoon The human brain may contain up to a spoon’s worth of tiny plastic shards—not a spoonful, but the same weight (about seven grams) as a plastic spoon, according to new findings published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine. Researchers detected these “almost unbelievable” levels of microplastics and nanoplastics in the brains of human …

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Plastic straws are back

Common sense wins again! The war on plastic straws was never about the environment—it was about control. Paper straws were a useless, soggy, virtue-signaling disaster, and everyone knew it. “It’s a ridiculous situation. We’re going back to plastic straws,” Trump told reporters at the White House as he signed the order. “These things don’t work,” …

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10 Questionable Foods From China That Could Be Filled With Pesticides, Plastic, and Cancer-Causing Chemicals

Plastic!! Snipped 1. Plastic Rice What It Is: Fake rice made from a combination of potato, sweet potato, and plastic resin. Why It’s Dangerous: Consuming plastic can lead to digestive issues and long-term health problems. 2. Pesticide-Laden Apples What It Is: Apples from China are often treated with excessive pesticides to keep them looking fresh. …

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Governor Newsom bans plastic bags by 2026, requiring Walmart and others to adopt reusable alternatives.

Walmart, Target, and Albertsons alongside other grocery giants are all making a big change to their stores in California. Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning plastic bags being used at such stores in the state. The change will take legal effect on January 1, 2026, and will affect all grocery stores. Some grocery …

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Biden admin will ban federal government using plastic cutlery to combat climate change

It worked great when they banned plastic straws in California. Climate change totally fixed there. pic.twitter.com/orOeko1v5J — Samuel Culper 722 (@politiwars) August 6, 2024 The Biden administration announced a plan to target plastic pollution, dedicating particular focus to “phase out” single-use plastics – such as kitchen cutlery, cups and straws – across federal departments. President Biden …

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After original plastic bag ban backfired, California looks to a bigger ban to solve the problem

Unintended Consequences: The amount of plastic bags Californians threw away increased by approximately 50% since the ban became law. Now, California lawmakers are eyeing stricter bans to address the problems that the original ban may have created n 2014, then-California Gov. Jerry Brown announced that his state would be the first in the nation to …

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Plastic Shopping Bags Cause Around Four Times Less “Carbon” Emissions Than Paper Substitutes

If green activists truly worried about atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide, they would bring back plastic shopping bags tomorrow. But they wouldn’t – the whipped up plastic scare has been too useful a tool to batter people into accepting the relentless drive to embrace inferior products and technologies. The acceptance of reduced …

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Trader Joe’s recall over plastic in food.

More than 61,000 pounds of steamed chicken soup dumplings sold at Trader Joe’s are being recalled for possibly containing hard plastic, U.S. regulators announced Saturday. The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service noted that the now-recalled dumplings, which are produced by the California-based CJ Foods Manufacturing Beaumont Corp., may be contaminated with foreign materials …

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Scientists Gene-Hack Bacteria to Turn Waste Plastic Into Kevlar-Like Spider Silk

“We’re really harnessing what nature has developed to do manufacturing for us.” Now that’s how you upcycle. In a recent study, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were able to gene-hack a strain of bacteria to turn wasteful polyethylene plastic into a spider silk-like material as strong as Kevlar — a fascinating way to transform harmful …

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Bottled water found to contain alarming levels of plastic particles, microplastics

via naturalnews: New research published in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals that bottled water may not be as healthy and pure as claimed due to contamination with microplastics. Researchers from Columbia University and Rutgers University found that the average bottle of water sold at grocery stores contains nearly 250,000 fragments of harmful nanoplastics, which are so small …

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Canada’s Environmental minister’s plastic ban is federally overturned

The Federal Court overturned Canada’s ban on single-use plastic on Thursday, deeming the policy “unreasonable and unconstitutional. The decision found that the classification of plastics in the cabinet order was too broad to be listed on the List of Toxic Substances in Schedule 1 and the government acted outside of its authority. “There is no …

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Paper Straws Actually More Toxic Than Plastic

by Chris Black Yeah, I am shocked, what can I say? Paper straws are yet another "green" disaster. They contain a carcinogen called PFAS, which builds up in the body and is linked to multiple cancers. Plastic is the new cool… pic.twitter.com/WKp3EAQAaj — Rob Boyd, Esq (@AvonandsomerRob) August 25, 2023 I think I speak for …

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