PepsiCo, Inc. has announced a new target to reduce 35% of virgin plastic content across its beverage portfolio by 2025, which equates to the elimination of 2.5 million metric tons of cumulative virgin plastic.
PureCycle Technologies has announced it has successfully completed purified waste carpet from its Feedstock Evaluation Unit (FEU), transforming discarded carpet into clear, odorless, Ultra-Pure Recycled Polypropylene (UPRP) resin through its proprietary plastics recycling technology, developed and invented by Procter & Gamble.
According to a growing body of evidence, merely by wearing deodorant or breathing, a person may have more impact over his/her office space than previously thought. However, could these common daily life acts also be polluting the air in the office space where one works?
For generations, chlorine bleach has been used by people to clean and sanitize their homes. However, scientists have recently found that bleach fumes, coupled with light and a citrus compound contained in numerous household products, can form airborne particles that could be detrimental when breathed in by pets or people.
15% Increase in Plastic Bottles Washing Up on Inaccessible Island
By David J. Cross, M.A
2 Oct 2019
For a long time, rising ocean temperatures have been associated with negative effects on marine life, but researchers from Florida State University have discovered that the long-term outlook for numerous marine species is a lot more complex—and perhaps bleaker—than researchers formerly believed.
Species have some good options with regards to enduring climate change—they can genetically adjust to new settings, alter their ranges, or both.
An Iceberg the Size of Sydney Breaks off Antarctica
By Sarah Moore
1 Oct 2019
At any moment in Delhi, India, a resident might start their car, releasing exhaust that floats into the atmosphere. In northwest India, a farmer might set fire to his field after the wheat harvest to clear it quickly, releasing smoke that'll be carried by the wind.
The process of natural selection is common knowledge, through which organisms adjust to their environments. But what occurs when there are no barricades to gene flow and organisms are floating freely between highly variable environmental surroundings?
Recently, on June 28, 2019, a scholarly journal that is maintained by the top-ranked journal Nature published a scientific research paper.
Valio is among the first food companies to begin using recycled plastic. This development in packaging is part of a larger goal: the food company wants to cut milk’s carbon footprint to zero by 2035.
To mitigate climate change, the proportion of low-carbon electricity generation must increase from today’s 36% to 85% by 2040, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. IEA and other advocates argue that nuclear power could help fill this gap.
With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, an interdisciplinary Vienna-based team is investigating the nature of carbonaceous particles that play a key role in the formation of ice clouds.
NEC Energy Solutions and NEC Asia Pacific jointly revealed today that NEC provided its 400 kW, 400 kWh GSS® end-to-end Grid Storage Solution and AEROS® proprietary energy storage controls software as part of SP Group’s innovative hybrid system which recently received the Singapore Minister for National Development’s R&D Merit Award at the 2019 Urban Sustainability R&D Congress.