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Recycled roads pave the way to a sustainable future

New roads mixed with recycled plastics at ten sites across Victoria will demonstrate a viable circular-economy solution to the nation, experts say.

Aug 9, 2023

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E-nose can help control food plastic quality, new research reveals

Skoltech scientists in collaboration with SIBUR PolyLab Research Center and other universities and organizations presented results of a project exploring the e-nose technology for controlling the quality and technology of ...

Jul 19, 2023

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Clean, sustainable fuels made 'from thin air' and plastic waste

Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes—or even directly from the air—and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the sun.

Jun 19, 2023

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Plastic upcycling to close the carbon cycle

There's a lot of potentially useful raw materials bound up in used face masks, grocery bags and food wrap. But it has been much cheaper to keep making more of these single-use plastics than to recover and recycle them.

Feb 23, 2023

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Reusable take-out food containers can reduce plastic waste, emissions, costs, study finds

In the effort to reduce plastic waste in the restaurant industry—single-use takeout containers, specifically—University of Michigan researchers compared the lifetime environmental impacts of single-use and reusable food ...

Jan 24, 2023

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With better standards, we could make plastics endlessly useful and slash waste

If you flip over a plastic food container, you'll see tiny writing on it—something like "AS 2070." This means the product meets the Australian standard for plastics safe to use for food.

Sep 7, 2022

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How are recycled garments made? And why is recycling them further so hard?

Today we make more clothing than ever before. And the driver for this is primarily economic, rather than human need. Over the past decade, the term "circular economy" has entered the fashion industry lexicon, wherein materials ...

Jun 22, 2022

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New method to convert plastic trash into clean hydrogen fuel

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new method for plastic waste to be converted into hydrogen based on pyrolysis, a high temperature chemical process.

Apr 8, 2022

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Norwegian Air to cut emissions by 45% by 2030

Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle said Thursday it planned to slash CO2 emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and reduce its use of plastics as part of a new environmental strategy.

Sep 17, 2020

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Ethane storage seen as key to revitalization of Appalachia

Plans are underway in Appalachia to create two underground facilities to store ethane, a byproduct of natural gas drilling seen as integral to revitalizing a region still struggling from the loss of industrial and manufacturing ...

Apr 29, 2019

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