Energy & Green Tech
Single-use health care items—everything from gloves and blood bags to surgical equipment—have become a growing environmental problem worldwide. Their use has increased sharply in recent years, and there are currently ...
Aug 7, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, the question of what to do with our household waste has become more pressing. In 2018, China stopped accepting many types of recyclable plastic waste from Australia. Four years later, Australia's main soft ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Business
Amazon is shifting from the plastic air pillows used for packaging in North America to recycled paper because it's more environmentally sound, and it says paper just works better.
Jun 20, 2024
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Engineering
While 3D printing has exploded in popularity, many of the plastic materials these printers use to create objects cannot be easily recycled. While new sustainable materials are emerging for use in 3D printing, they remain ...
Apr 8, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Discarded crisp bags, ketchup bottles and Tupperware containers speed along conveyer belts at a massive high-tech sorting plant dubbed "Site Zero", which Sweden hopes will revolutionize its plastic recycling.
Mar 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In H&M's flagship Paris store it is hard to find clothes that don't claim to be made from "recycled materials".
Feb 7, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Life cycle assessments are often used as a basis for decision-making when selecting environmentally friendly processes, input materials or services for plastics recycling. But what does a comparable and transparent ecological ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Engineering
Newcastle University engineers have invented a new glue that promises to change how we recycle. Its reversible nature means it can be used for a multitude of purposes such as on the labels of bottles so that they are efficiently ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Engineering
Stanford engineers Michael Lepech and Zhiye Li have a unique vision of the future: buildings and roads made from plastic waste.
Jul 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
An international team of researchers from India and Singapore, led by Associate Professor Kheng Lim Goh from Newcastle University in Singapore, has examined the impact of plastic waste management on creating a new type of ...
Jun 23, 2023
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