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Twenty Million Tonnes of Plastic Destined For Landfill Set For Replacement by Plant Based Plastics

Results from a new University of Missouri study suggest that some of the largely petroleum-based plastic may soon be replaced by a nonpolluting, renewable plastic made from plants

12 Feb 2009

Finalists Named in CleanTech Business Innovations Awards

The Plastics Environmental Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is pleased to announce the finalists for a competition at the Clean Technology Business Forum to be held during SPE's Global Plastics Environmental Conference

4 Feb 2009

CIGS to Fulfill Its Potential as a Photovoltaic Wonder Material

CIGS - a photovoltaic material technology
made of copper-indium-gallium-selenium - will fulfill its potential as the wonder
child of the thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) materials business.

29 Jan 2009

Could Laser Printers Be Causing Poor Office Worker Health

Could the humble laser printer be responsible for poor health among office workers

21 Jan 2009

Precious Earth Sustainable Jewelry Launches Ethical Line

Precious Earth, a sustainable jewelry line, takes a step forward from the cadre of ethical jewelers with the launch of a line dedicated to transparency and consciousness in the jewelry trade by raising awareness for beneficiation programs in Africa and the world's endangered species

20 Jan 2009

Bioplastics Award Goes to DuPont for High Performance Materials From Renewable Sources

DuPont recently received the 2008 European Bioplastics Product Line Strategy Award from Frost and Sullivan - a leading market consulting company - for its accomplishments in rapidly developing an extremely diverse range of high-performance materials based on renewable sources

6 Jan 2009

Do Laser Printers Really Release Pathogens In The Air and Present a Health Risk

Do laser printers emit pathogenic toner particles into the air? Some people are convinced that they do. As a result, this topic is the subject of public controversy. Researchers have now investigated what particles the printers really do release into the air

2 Dec 2008

Software For Eco-Design and Restricted Substances Being Guided by Environmental Materials Information Technology Consortium

The Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium held its first meeting at the Eurocopter site in Marseille, France in mid-October. The Consortium is guiding development of software to support eco design and to enable design in the context of restricted substances regulations

30 Nov 2008

WRAP to Run Workshops Encouraging Construction Projects to Reduce Costs, Carbon Emissions and Improve Resource Efficiency

WRAP workshops encourage construction projects to reduce costs, carbon emissions and improve resource efficiency by using hydraulically bound materials, HBMs

27 Nov 2008

GreenBlue Named "Champion" by US EPA for Project to Encourage Safer Cleaning Products

GreenBlue receives EPA Champion recognition for CleanGredients®, promoting safer surfactants in cleaning products and advancing sustainability in the industry.

20 Nov 2008