Using century-old minerals processing methods, chemical engineering students have found a solution to a looming 21st-century problem: how to economically recycle lithium ion batteries. Lei P... Read more
Although rechargeable batteries in smartphones, cars and tablets can be charged again and again, they don’t last forever. Old batteries often wind up in landfills or incinerators, pote... Read more
Brazilian company Clever Pack designs reusable tops for water bottles that double as building bricks Consider the lowly water bottle cap. Every year people untwist and discard billions of th... Read more
Researchers have shown how to convert waste packing peanuts into high-performance carbon electrodes for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that outperform conventional graphite electrodes, r... Read more
The 3-D printing revolution has changed the way we think about plastics. Everything from children’s toys to office supplies to high-value laboratory equipment can be printed. The potential s... Read more
Traditionally, plastic recycling processes involve using a lot of water. In order to avoid this waste, Ak Inovex from Mexico developed a new green technology that doesn’t require liquids, an... Read more
LMU researchers have developed a new process which will greatly simplify the process of sorting plastics in recycling plants. The method enables automated identification of polymers, facilit... Read more
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
It’s the world’s first such plant to operate on an industrial scale Thanks to its extensive composting and recycling facilities, the city of Edmonton, Canada is already diverting... Read more
IBM Research Discovers New Class of Industrial Polymers New experimental polymers could deliver cheaper, lighter, stronger and recyclable materials ideal for electronics, aerospace, airline... 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
Making your own stuff with a 3D printer is vastly cheaper than what you’d pay for manufactured goods, even factoring in the cost of buying the plastic filament. Yet, you can drive the cost d... Read more
Rare earth metals are important components in green energy products such as wind turbines and eco-cars. But the scarcity of these metals is worrying the EU. The demand for metals such as neo... Read more
This pilot-scale breakthrough will provide ‘a good example’ for the recycling of increasingly popular rare earth elements in practical industrial applications Researchers at the... 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
