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There are a lot of things that get landfilled that have some marginal value, but generally if there’s not a huge amount of money to be made recycling things they …read more Continue reading Disposable Vape Batteries Power eBike
How would you like to visit your local nuclear power facility and maybe go for a swim in its indoor pool? Or hang out and look at art … Maybe even just sit with friends and enjoy a cup of coffee in the warm glow of nuclear power?Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading It’s not a tiny home. It’s actually a nuclear microreactor powerplant
Plastics are unfortunately so cheap useful that they’ve ended up everywhere. They’re filling our landfills, polluting our rivers, and even infiltrating our food chain as microplastics. As much as we …read more Continue reading Recycling Tough Plastics Into Precursors With Some Smart Catalyst Chemistry
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn’t exactly what you might have heard. It’s not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of already has its own currency (called Debris), a flag,… Continue reading The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has a $7.5-billion price tag
Glass-fragment waste typically just ends up in landfills, but perhaps that doesn’t always have to be the case. A new study shows that ground glass particles can be mixed with soil to produce a plant growth medium that’s actually better than soil alone…. Continue reading For a better plant growth medium, just add ground glass
Back in 2021, researchers came up with a recipe for greener concrete that had building waste and CO2 among its ingredients. Now the same team has used rubble from a demolished school and the greenhouse gas to produce bricks to build new structures.Cont… Continue reading New greener building bricks made from demolished school and CO2
Using a proprietary chemical process pioneered by Canadian firm Excir, England’s The Royal Mint has begun mining old circuit boards from electronic devices for gold and converting what’s harvested into attractive, if pricey, jewelry.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Trashed circuit boards prove a literal gold mine for The Royal Mint
Lithium is a finite resource, and the more we lock inside rechargeable batteries, the less we have to use. A new speedy method to free the element from such sources could be a game changer in terms of the material’s availability.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Microwave technique recovers 87% of batteries’ lithium in 15 minutes
As it turns out, a great deal of plastics are thrown away every year, a waste which feels ever growing. Still, as reported by Sci-Tech Daily, there may be help on …read more Continue reading Lasers Could Help Us Recycle Plastics Into Carbon Dots
Black plastics pose an identification problem for sorting machines at recycling facilities, as the sensors can’t see them. Canon has developed a system that users lasers and tracking tech to identify and sort plastic trash on the conveyor belt, no matt… Continue reading Canon sorting tech brings black plastics into the recycling mix