It is well known, the media never talks about the trains that arrive on time. So that following the news can be completely depressing. Without denying the great threats and the difficulties which are going through our time, there are also very good news which sometimes reaches us and which are not relatively relayed. To ignore them is to condemn themselves to despair. Here is three recent information that gives us a smile.
This plastic dissolves in the sea
Japanese researchers have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater. The latter has been developed thanks to supramolecular chemistry. It is just as resistant as the current plastic, although it does not mean 10 hours to decompose in sea water. In the ground, the latter disappear in ten days and leaves phosphorus and nitrogen.
Quoted by Positive Newsthe main study of the study, Takuzo Aida, rejoices: rejoices: “With this new material, we have created a new family of plastics that are solid, stable, recyclable, can fulfill multiple functions and, above all, do not generate microplastics”. It remains to succeed in ensuring a large -scale production of this material, which could be difficult.
Spain puts the package against disinformation
The Iberian government has tabled a bill against disinformation on digital platforms. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez expressed his concern in the face of the rise of the fake news that weigh on our democracies.
Under This text, Influencers who have a large number of subscribers (100,000) will be required to correct their any errors under penalty of prosecution. Platforms will have to set up specific mechanisms to counter disinformation. Félix Bolaños, the Minister of Justice, commented: “For those who devote themselves every day to the lie and the dissemination of hoaxes, the party is finished”.
Vaccines have saved millions of lives
According to an article published in the journal The Lancetthe vaccination programs carried out against measles by WHO since 1974 have saved 94 million lives. As for those against tetanus, they would have contributed to saving 28 million lives. Follow whooping and tuberculosis (28 and 13 million lives saved. In all, more than 150 million lives are affected in the last 50 years.
It’s over for this week. If you liked this article, you can still reread the previous component of this section to find other good new, relatively unnoticed news.
