Smart recycling containers that reward people for proper use could help drive up the rate of plastic recycling, reducing the amount of plastic that goes into oceans and landfill, and creating business opportunities out of ...
Environment
Jun 5, 2018
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Thai police have raided several factories near Bangkok that allegedly were using a loophole to illegally import and process electronic waste.
Environment
May 25, 2018
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A recent study out of Texas A&M University focused on the practical applications of the global concern that potable water will become less and less accessible in the future. Melinda Knuth and her team engaged an examination ...
Environment
May 23, 2018
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Australia's recycling industry is in crisis, with China having effectively closed its borders to foreign recycling. Emergency measures have included stockpiling, landfilling, and trying to find other international destinations ...
Environment
May 8, 2018
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Ipswich residents have been told their recycling waste will now be dumped into landfill because it is too expensive for the local council to recycle.
Environment
Apr 19, 2018
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During the height of the California drought that began in late 2011, Los Angeles imported 89 percent of its water from more than 200 miles away—an energy-intensive process. After a yearlong reprieve, Southern California ...
Environment
Mar 1, 2018
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My son sent me a text this morning from the school bus. "Mum" he said "there's litter everywhere." Of course, he knows my interest in such things…
Environment
Feb 22, 2018
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Once the domain of a company's production/operations department, environmental awareness has steadily expanded to include functions across the entire organization. Over the last three decades, Earth-friendly actions have ...
Economics & Business
Feb 8, 2018
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Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed an energy-efficient recycling process that restores used cathodes from spent lithium ion batteries and makes them work just as good as new. The process ...
Materials Science
Jan 25, 2018
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Sorting scrap car parts into just eight classes could increase recycling rates of alloy elements to over 97% in Japan, according to a study by Tohoku University researchers and their colleagues. Their analysis found that ...
Environment
Jan 24, 2018
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