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Clean Carbon Conversion Aims to Develop Green Tech Solution to Fight Constantly Growing Waste

Vincent Keller recollects alarming facts: the World Bank expects 70% waste growth by 2050.

16 Apr 2019

UCLA Engineers Design Effective Water Vapor Capture System that Could Produce Clean Water

UCLA mathematicians and engineers were inspired by how dew drops develop on spider webs and have developed a distinctive and effective water vapor capture system that could be used to obtain clean, fresh water, or to recycle industrial water that would otherwise be thrown away.

15 Apr 2019

Researchers Solve the Structure of Key Enzyme for Sustainable Recycling of PET Polymer

The molecular structure of a key enzyme called MHETase has now been solved by researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin (HZB) and the University of Greifswald and Helmholtz-Zentrum-Berlin (HZB) at BESSY II.

15 Apr 2019

Researchers Study the Impact of Electronics Waste Accumulating in Landfills

The past few years have witnessed a boom due to the dwindling cost of solar power, with increasingly number of photovoltaic panels emerging on backyard solar farms and rooftops across the globe.

5 Apr 2019

A New Method to Optimize Water Consumption in the Mining Industry

It is a well-known fact that water is an important resource that is depended by a large number of industries and one that can be used more frugally.

29 Mar 2019

Chinese Manufacturers of Electric Vehicle Battery Focused on Recycling

Chinese electric vehicle battery manufacturers are gradually concentrating on recycling as part of a sustainable life cycle approach.

27 Mar 2019

Making Disposable Products or Bioplastic Films from Fruit Waste

How about a disposable cup from which one can drink coffee and then have the cup as dessert. Veronika Bátori, who recently obtained her doctorate in Resource Recovery at the University of Borås, has made the first move toward making the production of disposable products or bioplastic films from fruit waste a reality.

21 Mar 2019

PureCycle, Milliken & Nestlé Team-Up to Recycle Used PP into Virgin-Like Resin

PureCycle Technologies has partnered with Milliken & Company and Nestlé S.A. as it moves forward with plans to open its first plant to restore used polypropylene (PP) plastic to 'virgin-like' quality with a revolutionary recycling method.

20 Mar 2019

China, India – Who’s Next to Ban Plastic Waste Imports from the UK?

It’s been just over a year since the UK’s recycling industry was hit with the news that China was placing restrictions on the recyclable materials it would accept into the country. Now, India has announced that it too wants to tighten its laws around the plastic waste being imported for recycling.

17 Mar 2019

RepescaPlas Project Targets Recovery of Toxic Marine Waste

The RespescaPlas Project, which began in January 2018, has completed its first year with more than 3,000 kilos of marine litter collected from the water in the ports of Marín and Vigo (Galicia) and Gandia, (Valencia).

17 Mar 2019