Collaborate Disseminate
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
“We can feed black soldier flies straight, dirty trash,” says a team that’s working to turn insects into landfill-clearing biomanufacturing machines that turn regular, dangerous or contaminated garbage into a range of high-value products.Continue Readi… Continue reading Insects as biofactories: Turning dangerous waste into valuable products
Clear Robotics is expanding its fleet of autonomous marine trash collectors. Its Class 3 vessel boasts more onboard storage capacity plus towed barge potential for extended cleanup operations, and has also been designed to tackle invasive weeds.Continu… Continue reading Autonomous marine trash gobbler takes on invasive weeds too
Last year, researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, found that replacing up to 15% of the sand ordinarily used in concrete with waste coffee grounds made it 30% stronger. It’s a case of killing two birds with one coffee bean: the produ… Continue reading Super-strong coffee-reinforced concrete gets real-world test
Let’s face it, eating a reheated pre-made meal out of small tubs with wooden or plastic cutlery while crammed in a coach seat is hardly ever going to be a fine-dining experience. But airlines are now looking to new technology in an effort to give us mo… Continue reading Plane food is terrible – now airlines are betting on AI to fix it
Scientists have developed a new “ink” that allows objects to be 3D-printed out of wood. The material could reduce the amount of wood that gets wasted in the manufacturing of various products, plus it could utilize existing wood waste that would otherwi… Continue reading In a world-first, wooden items get 3D-printed out of wood-only ingredients
Sorting trash is one of those tasks that people can get pretty tired of, pretty fast – plus it can be hazardous. That’s why ZenRobotics makes robots that do the job. The company’s latest generation is particularly trash-savvy, as it can ID over 500 typ… Continue reading ZenRobotics 4.0 brings new smarts to automated garbage-picking
Cars don’t grow on trees, but Ford is designing car parts from olive tree cuttings. [via Electrek] Ford is no stranger to designing parts from plants for their vehicles. Henry …read more Continue reading Can Car Parts Grow on Trees?
Although we should try to keep as little of our organic waste as possible from going to the landfill, not everyone has the outdoor space for a compost heap. The Puresky Waste Composter is designed to help, by moving the composting indoors.Continue Read… Continue reading Puresky converts kitchen waste to compost in a claimed six hours
In an effort to drive down the production cost of biodiesel, researchers have developed an eco-friendly way of extracting triacetin, a combustion-enhancing additive, from an abundant waste source: cigarette butts. Recycling cigarette butts in this way … Continue reading Recycling cigarette butts may reduce biodiesel production costs