May 7, 2024
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By Chris Lindahl / Patch San Diego / May 5, 2024
From automatic service charges to vague “living wage” fees, California restaurants have increasingly been tacking on extra costs to diners’ bills in recent years, much to customers’ chagrin. But starting later this year, that practice will become illegal — the menu price (plus tax) is all you’ll have to pay.
Signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in October and set to take effect July 1, SB 478 will prohibit hidden fees, defined by state officials as fees in which a seller uses an artificially low advertised price to attract a customer, disclosing additional required fees in fine print or tacking on unavoidable charges later in the buying process.
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May 7, 2024
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By Jared Aarons / ABC10News / May 02, 2024
By Jared Aarons / ABC10 / May 02, 2024
A team of researchers from UC San Diego has come up with a unique solution to help with the world’s plastic problem.
They created a form of plastic that can basically recycle itself.
Dr. Adam Feist and Professor Jon Pokorski combined traditional polyurethane with a microbial spore to create plastic that can break down in compost or any other natural environment in around 5 months.
They published a paper this week in Nature Communications detailing their process and results.
“There are some studies that show, of the millions, trillions of microbes out there, some can eat the plastic itself,” says Feist. “So we were saying if we combine them together, what would happen? And how can that better facilitate that massive problem we have with polymers everywhere?”
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