Proposal could divert a dangerous waste stream while producing low-cost photovoltaics This could be a classic win-win solution: A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials fro... Read more
The ‘Happiness Arcade’ is not a feasible sustainable recycling endeavor You live in a city of 15 million people and it seems like litter is everywhere. One day, while on a busy street, you c... Read more
The pilot-scale experiment indicated that the self-supported flower-like nano-Mg(OH)2 had great potential to recycle REEs from industrial wastewater.” Many of today’s technologies, from hybr... Read more
This breakthrough permits the salvaging of up to 40% of the discarded rubber for the manufacture of new tyres In partnership with the Dutch University of Groningen, Thai scientist Sitisaiyid... Read more
To increase the city’s dismal recycling rates, Houston’s government is trying something else: One Bin for All. It will collect all trash together in one bin and then convert it to biofuel. H... Read more
The idea struck me during a meeting. While thoughts of waste don’t routinely course through my brain, trash was the subject matter at a meeting of Duke’s Campus Sustainabi... Read more