A sewer stack is PVC pipe that allows sewage and grey water to run from the home to a sewer line or septic tank. It is the cut to that leaking pipe that Simon alleges caused the mould.

Scroll through the hashtag 'cutting and bulking' on TikTok and you will see thousands of videos showing off the before and after results of their weight cycling phases. Cutting and bulking is ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Taking home top honours was NowaTech's PVC decking planks, made from recycled PVC pipes and bottles (primarily honey and bubble bath bottles), which won Gold in the Building and Construction category.

A salt pipe is an inhaler containing salt particles. Advocates of salt pipes suggest they help with many health conditions, including asthma, but scientific support is limited. Salt therapy ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

SEREMBAN: Almost 60,000 consumers have experienced water supply disruption due to repairs following a burst pipe in front of the Petronas station in Jalan Jelebu here since Saturday (Oct 19).

A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also identified the enzyme the bacterium use to degrade plastic. The discovery opens new possibilities ...

CVS Health said it is cutting about 2,900 employees as part of a goal to reduce costs by $2 billion. The job cuts represents about 1% of the health care company's workforce, a CVS spokesperson ...

This is a departure from the more collegial days of partnerships, when it was unheard of to cut a partner's compensation, unless a firm sought their ouster, industry observers said. Now law firms ...

Nanqing Zhou, a lead author on the study and postdoctoral researcher, compared the bacteria’s consumption of plastic to how people eat cows. “If you want to eat beef, you need to cut [it] into ...

An curved arrow pointing right. What do we get wrong when we talk about ocean plastic? A lot, it turns out. Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and ...