In the former coal mining region of Lorraine, nestled near the French-German border, a team of scientists embarked on a significant exploration mission. They maneuvered a small probe down a borehole, plunging it half a mile into the earth’s crust. Their discovery in the water table below was nothing short of promising: bubbles, akin to […]
Environment: will plastic bottles soon be returnable?
Supermarkets could soon offer to return your plastic bottles for a fee. But behind this deposit is an economic arm wrestling match between the town halls and the actors of the large distribution.Thrown in the nature, plastic bottles will take up to 1 000 years to degrade. Plastic pollutes but how to get rid of […]