For instance, a plastic bag from the grocery store can take up to 20 years to decompose. A plastic straw can take 200 years ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Your body is made up of over 200 bones, a few trillion microbes, and as many as 37 trillion cells. And while death is often thought of as the end of the ...

A woman is suing an Alabama hospital where her 58-year-old mother died, accusing the facility of leaving her body to decompose in an unrefrigerated room for nearly two days. By failing to properly ...

For instance, rubber tires decompose naturally over a fairly reasonable-sounding period of 50 to 80 years. Wait, what's that? Engine blocks will take at least 500 years to break down? Ouch.

This eco-friendly feature sets them apart from traditional batteries, which can take decades to decompose and often release toxic substances into the environment, according to Interesting Engineering.