The plastic plant pot is the gardener's equivalent to the shopper's plastic carrier bag: we know we use too many of them - some 500 million each year in the UK - but they’re really cheap and ...

Plastic pots offer poor insulation against temperature fluctuations. In cold weather, the soil in plastic pots can cool down rapidly, which can stress the plants and slow their growth.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Add water until it begins to drain from the bottom of the pot, then discard the excess water that collected in the drip tray.

Security cameras showed two men getting out of a vehicle in the rain, entering Warabi-en and walking out with bonsai trees in their hands. Imai said 24 pots, worth 7 million yen ($49,000 ...

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For many of us, plastic containers are part of our daily lives; we use them to store, freeze, heat and transport a variety of different foods. But some scientists are concerned that the chemicals ...

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In the first placebo-controlled trial of β-blockade in patients with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS), Dr Satish Raj and colleagues have demonstrated that low doses of propranolol dampen the ...

Despite global concerns over the accumulation of plastic waste, the drive to produce new plastics shows no signs of slowing down. According to OECD data, the world’s annual plastic production ...