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Fruits and Vegetables can be Protected by Egg-Based Coating

Eggs that would otherwise be wasted can be used as the base of an inexpensive coating to protect fruits and vegetables, according to Rice University researchers.

8 Jun 2020

Nitrogen-Rich Fertilizer can be Produced by Recycling Human Waste

Researchers from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan have proven it is possible to create nitrogen-rich fertilizer by combining the solid and liquid components of human waste.

3 Jun 2020

Global Plastic Waste Management Market Operations Slowdown Amid COVID-19 Crisis; Positive Market Outlook in Long Term, Says PMR

The effect of COVID-19 can be felt in nearly every aspect of our lives. The market place for approximately every item is feeling the heat of the current situation of crisis. Multiple factors such as sluggish economic growth and restricted transport can be held responsible for the same.

26 May 2020

New Strategies Could Help Californians to Sustain with Less Water

As climate change and population growth make drinking water costlier, here are six strategies to quench the state’s thirst without busting its budget.

21 May 2020

Researchers Develop Faster, More Efficient Process to Recycle Bioplastics

Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Bath have designed a more rapid and more effective way of recycling plant-based “bioplastics.”

21 May 2020

Researchers Estimate the Recycling Efficiency of Marine Microbes

A team of researchers from the Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences (Budweis, Czechia), MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen (Germany), and Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (Bremen, Germany) have estimated that these chemoautotrophs recycle approximately 5 per cent of the carbon and phosphorus assimilated by marine algae and release terragrams (1012 g) of dissolved organics to the ocean interior each year.

13 May 2020