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ACOR and Boomerang Alliance Announce the 5 Big Waste Policies for Federal Election

The Australian Council of Recycling (ACOR) and national recycling campaign group, the Boomerang Alliance, have today released their 5 priority actions the next Commonwealth Government needs to implement to solve Australia’s waste and recycling crisis.

13 Mar 2019

Toray Plastics (America) Collaborates with Sustainable Packaging Coalition

Toray Plastics (America) has joined the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC). The Sustainable Packaging Coalition is a membership-based collaborative that believes in the power of industry to make packaging more sustainable.

From Toray Plastics (America), Inc 13 Mar 2019

Researchers Use Potato-flour-derived TPS & PLA to Produce Disposable Cutlery

Innovative polymer composition for the production of, among others ecological disposable cutlery, subject to organic recycling, was developed at the Department of Polymer Technology of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Gdańsk University of Technology.

13 Mar 2019

Eastman Develops Advanced Circular Recycling Technology to Tackle Polyester Waste

Eastman has announced its intention to pursue the launch of an innovative advanced circular recycling technology that uses polyester waste which cannot be recycled by current mechanical methods, and as a result, often ends up in landfills and waterways.

From Eastman Chemical Company 13 Mar 2019

KAUST Team Develops Eco-Friendly Method to Make Membranes that Process Wastewater

The environmental credentials of the chemical industry could be greatly enhanced by the selectively permeable membranes derived from renewable plant-based materials.

12 Mar 2019

Solar Geoengineering Could Help Offset Global Warming

One of the main misapprehensions about solar geoengineering—injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight and decrease global warming—is that it could be used as a universal remedy to invert global warming trends and revert temperature back to pre-industrial levels.

12 Mar 2019

Coal Power Stations Disrupt Rainfall: Global Study

Modern coal-fired power stations produce more ultrafine dust particles than road traffic and can even modify and redistribute rainfall patterns, a new 15-year international study shows.

12 Mar 2019

World-First Research Shows How Beaches Clean Our Oceans

They are invisible to the human eye, but they are there – millions of microbes in our beaches, breaking down the rubbish in our waters.

12 Mar 2019

Indian Emissions Monitoring Event Set for Enormous Growth

With environmental monitoring as a central theme, an international Conference and Exhibition will take place in New Delhi, 24-26th September 2019. CEM India 2019 will build on the success of a similar event that took place in 2017, with the additional theme of water effluent quality.

12 Mar 2019

Sea Ice Plays Pacemaker Role in Abrupt Climate Change

The growth or shrinkage of sea ice is often viewed as a symptom of climate change, but new research shows it may have played a more causative role in abrupt climate changes thousands of years ago.

From Hitachi, Ltd. 11 Mar 2019

Delta’s UPS and DCIM Systems Power Bytesnet’s New Green Data Centre and Data Lab

Delta, a global provider of power and thermal management solutions, announced today its DPH 500kVA modular uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and InfraSuite Manager data center information management (DCIM) system are now in operation at Bytesnet’s new d’Root data center at Zernike Campus Groningen in the Netherlands.

From Delta Electronics (Netherlands) BV 11 Mar 2019

MIT Students Use Design Thinking to Solve Energy Issues on the Massachusetts Island Community

Some of the earliest and most adverse impacts of climate change are being faced by tiny island communities around the world.

11 Mar 2019

King’s College London and British Safety Council Launch Canairy, the World’s First Mobile App for Outdoor Workers to Measure Their Exposure to Air Pollution in London

A unique app launched today by King’s College London for the British Safety Council’s Time to Breathe campaign, provides outdoor workers with information to help them reduce their exposure to air pollution and employers with intelligence to enable them to protect the health of their workers.

11 Mar 2019

Study Shows Melting of Sea Ice Could Contribute to Enhanced Warming in the Arctic Region

Recent observational investigations as well as model simulations with increasing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) have revealed enhanced warming in the Arctic (north of 67° N).

11 Mar 2019

CO2 Mineralization in Geologically Abundant Rocks for Storing Carbon

To prevent the worst effects of climate change, humanity has to change when it comes to lowering carbon emissions. If the world is to adhere to the IPCC’s minimum target of keeping global temperature increases lower than 1.5 °C, every possible path for CO2 remediation must be investigated.

11 Mar 2019