Polythene Clogging up Kashmir’s Natural Wonders, from Deepest Lake to Tallest Mountain

Polythene Clogging up Kashmir's Natural Wonders, from Deepest Lake to Tallest Mountain

Polythene is showing up in the darkest depths of the oceans, at the summit of tallest mountains and even the polar ice caps, thus aggravating already pressing environmental concerns. It came as a surprise to me while researching for this story that polythene was discovered by accident, and that too not once but twice. The first of these incidents took place just before the turn of the twentieth century in the year 1900; German scientist Hans von Pechmann discovered a residue in his test tube but discarded it thinking that…

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