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Engineered Microbe Could Jump-Start a Renewable Plastics Industry

With a few genetic tweaks, a type of soil bacteria with an appetite for hydrocarbons shows promise as a biological factory for converting a renewable — but frustratingly untapped — bounty into a replacement for ubiquitous plastics.

14 Mar 2019

New Research Center Launched to Develop Innovative E-Waste Recycling Technologies and Solutions

An innovative center, called the NTU Singapore-CEA Alliance for Research in Circular Economy (NTU SCARCE), will pay attention to four major research thrusts that will look into the recovery and recycling of materials from usual e-waste like discarded printed circuit boards and lithium-ion batteries.

14 Mar 2019

Libertine and Productiv to Collaborate on Modular Smart Engines

Libertine FPE, the creator of Smart Engine technology for electric vehicles, has joined forces with Productiv, a provider of venture engineering services for cleantech businesses, to accelerate and de-risk commercialisation of a range of modular Smart Engines using Libertine’s intelliGEN platform.

From Libertine FPE 14 Mar 2019

Viability of Hydrogen as Future Energy Source in the Humber

An independent study to enhance the evidence base for hydrogen technology has paved the way for its feasibility as a future clean energy source in the Humber region.

14 Mar 2019

Impact of Today’s Coal-Fired Power Stations on Rainfall and Climate Change

A novel 15-year global study has shown that present-day coal-fired power stations generate more ultrafine dust particles compared to road vehicles and could also alter and readjust rainfall distributions.

13 Mar 2019

Emissions Reduction Alberta Announces $100 Million Funding For Clean Technology Projects

An innovative clean technology to transition Alberta’s diesel-powered transit buses to electric is getting a boost in funding from Emissions Reduction Alberta.

13 Mar 2019

Renewable Carbon-Free Solution for Industrial Heat Applications

Researchers at the University of South Australia have developed a new technique that may greatly reduce industry’s dependence on natural gas, combining renewable energy and low-cost thermal storage to deliver heat for high-temperature industrial processes.

13 Mar 2019

Well Construction Complete as Part of Research to Improve Knowledge of Stored Carbon Dioxide Behaviour

Well construction and logging has been successfully completed as part of a new carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at CO2CRC’s Otway Research Facility at Nirranda South in Victoria.

13 Mar 2019

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