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New Research Into the Impact of Microplastics and Nanoplastics on Human Health is Urgently Required Due to ‘Significant Threat’ to Human Health

A new metastudy published in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics by Cambridge University Press, has identified a body of evidence demonstrating the negative impact of microplastics and nanoplastics (MPs and NPs) on human health and identifying the limitations of current research.

20 Mar 2024

Marmite Could Help in Recycling Metal Waste

As the world’s reliance on electronics grows, the search for viable solutions to recycle them intensifies. However, electronics can contain a variety of metals that are difficult to separate for proper recycling.

13 Mar 2024

Turning Waste Into Gold

ETH Zurich researchers have recovered the precious metal from electronic waste. Their highly sustainable new method is based on a protein fibril sponge, which the scientists derive from whey, a food industry byproduct.

5 Mar 2024

New Approach Recovers Rare Earths From Discarded Light Bulbs

A research group has found an easier way to collect slightly magnetic particles that contain rare-earth metals from spent fluorescent bulbs.

1 Mar 2024

CARBIOS and Landbell Group Join Forces to Increase Circularity of PET Waste at First Biorecycling Plant

CARBIOS (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), a pioneer in the development and industrialization of biological technologies to reinvent the life cycle of plastic and textiles, and Landbell Group, a global operator of more than 40 producer responsibility organizations (PROs) and a leading provider of closed-loop recycling solutions, announce the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding for the sourcing, preparation and recycling of post-consumer PET waste using CARBIOS’ biorecycling technology at its first commercial plant in Longlaville from 2026.

From Landbell Group 1 Mar 2024

Mobile Power Signs Battery Recycling Partnership with Hinckley E-Waste Recycling in Nigeria

UK-based Mobile Power Ltd (‘MOPO’), the pay-per-use battery technology company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a partnership agreement with Hinckley E-waste Recycling (‘Hinckley’) to facilitate the recycling of its MOPO batteries utilised at its solar powered battery rental hubs in Nigeria (‘the Agreement’).

13 Feb 2024