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7 common recycling mistakes and how to avoid them
Do you ever have that nagging feeling that perhaps what you’re about to dispose of can’t actually be recycled – and the negative impact it could be having on the environment, instead of positive? All recycling has to be sorted and if you put the wrong thing in, there’s the risk of cross-contamination. Indeed, according […]
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Decarbonization Tech Instantly Converts Carbon Dioxide to Solid Carbon
Australian researchers have developed a smart and super-efficient new way of capturing carbon dioxide and converting it to solid carbon, to help advance the decarbonization of heavy industries. The carbon dioxide utilization technology from researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is designed to be smoothly integrated into existing industrial processes. Decarbonization is an immense […]
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Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Eat CO2 and Release Valuable Acetone and Isopropyl That are Carbon-Negative
Scientists have discovered a way to genetically engineer bacteria that will consume carbon oxide and carbon dioxide before converting them to two widely used chemicals, acetone and isopropanol, thereby turning the whole process carbon negative. Used in a wide variety of products from hand sanitizer to light bulbs, and almost always made of virgin fossil […]
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Scientists Invent Eco-Friendly Plastic From Sugar That’s Strong And Recycles
Researchers from the UK’s University of Birmingham and Duke University have developed a new kind of plastic using building blocks found in sugar alcohols that’s biodegradable as well as recyclable. They made use of sugar-based starting materials to develop two new polymers — one that’s stretchable like rubber and the other is touch but ductile, […]
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Countries agree to end plastic pollution in ambitious global treaty
One hundred and seventy-five countries have agreed to a legally binding global treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis by tackling the material’s entire supply chain. Inger Anderson, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, says it is the “biggest multilateral environmental deal” since the 2015 Paris climate agreement. At a meeting of the UN […]
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A Novel ‘Artificial Leaf’ Captures 100 Times More Carbon Than Others
A team of engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) has developed a relatively low-cost «artificial leaf» that can capture carbon dioxide at rates 100 times faster than existing systems, bringing us one step closer to the goal of engineering the process of photosynthesis by which plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into […]
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Gas stoves negatively impact the environment
Gas cookers have the same impact on the environment as half a million cars, according to a new Stanford University study. Humans have cooked with fire for thousands of years, but it turns out our association between fire and food may be one we need to change for the sake of the environment. The unused […]
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In Finland, scientists are growing coffee in a lab
than something like beef. “The nutrient media for plant-cell cultures are much less complex, i.e., cheaper, than those for animal cells,” Rischer says. “Scaling up is also easier because plant cells grow freely, suspended in the medium, while animal cells grow attached to surfaces.” The process results in an off-white biomass that’s dried into a […]
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