Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:46:10 +0000
The world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, has just announced a novel process for turning old wind turbine blades into new ones, and considering the amount of ink spilled pointing out that blades which reach their end of life (25 years or so) are “piling up” in landfills, this could be a game-changer for wind […]
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:00:47 +0000
The folks over at Poppits had it with the wasteful use of plastics and took it upon themselves to build the solution. They took aim at the plastics we all touch and use on a daily basis to maintain good dental hygiene. To solve the problem, they built PopGel, a complete dental care system that […]
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2022 23:57:17 +0000
In another bad sign for fossil energy stakeholders, the apparel industry supply chain is focusing more attention on recycling pre-consumer and post-consumer petrochemicals.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:46:11 +0000
Protein Evolution says it has developed a process that breaks down plastic waste so it can be used to make new products.
Credit to Author: Tim Tyler| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 05:13:01 +0000
Bridgestone, one of the largest tire manufacturers in the world, is planning to help reduce the carbon footprint of its commercial vehicle line of tires by producing radio-tagged tires in 2024. Tires on vehicles like trucks and buses will be linked to a cloud-based system that is designed to help clients maximize the tires’ lifespan […]
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:47:24 +0000
The Department of Energy (DOE) has ramped up efforts to explore recycling spent nuclear fuel (SNF), or used nuclear fuel (UNF), from the nation’s fleet of light water reactors (LWRs), doling out $38 million in federal awards to a dozen projects on Oct. 21. Teams will receive funding under the DOE’s March 2022–launched “Converting UNF […]
The post U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing May Be Making a Comeback—Here’s Why appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Read moreCredit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:20:55 +0000
BMW’s new, recycled plastic bits could take a chunk out of the Pacific Garbage Patch.
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:41:52 +0000
As we move towards a circular economy, we need to bear in mind the huge job of cleaning up after ourselves and our ancestors. Just like LGI, Cleanaway is working towards adding value to the waste reallocation industry. Something you threw away today may find another use tomorrow. We should ask ourselves, what waste can […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:30:54 +0000
A solar panel has a useful life of about 20 years. That means a lot of panels installed in the early part of this century are ready to be replaced. But what to do with them? Until now, most of them have simply been discarded in dumps and landfills because no commercially viable recycling process […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:50:22 +0000
Are we kidding ourselves when we think that recycling is enough of a solution to the global plastics pollution problem?