Due to the increasing awareness of waste issues—and with it, demand for environmentally friendly alternatives, a lot of companies have made a public promise to...
Archive for tag: recycling
Recycling Rigid Plastic Have Happened, But What About the Multilayer Kind?
Recycling plastics have happened to those rigid in forms, such as pallets and furniture, or the ones with only one polymer material (monolayer). The flexible,...
Coffee Grounds Recycling Innovations: From Biodiesel to Yummy Coffee Bars
With how more people consume coffee each day, coffee grounds waste also increases. In UK only, people consume around 98 million cups of coffee each...
Glass Recycling Can Make Huge Difference to Our Lives
We can change the world from the simplest things, and we are going to talk about changing the world from literally stop throwing away glass....
Finding Value in Trash: One’s Waste is A Treasure for Another
For us common people, we consider agricultural wastes like manure, leaf litter, and crop residues as things that have limited value. Sure, we can turn...
Coffee Husk is an Affordable Housing Material of the Future
A construction company from Colombia has made an innovation for local communities. It’s an eco-friendly, low-income housing made from waste: coffee husks. The company, called...
We’ll be Able to Get Rare-Earth Metals from Old Electronics Soon
Let me be honest, I don’t know much about Earth metals but I do know that electronic production needs them. Mobile phones, computers, and other...
Let’s Talk About Upcycling, And How It Can Help Our Planet
Upcycling? We all know about recycling, even though not all of us do it on daily basis. We recognized it as something that can both...
Scientists Turn Sugars Found in Wood into Natural Polymer
Maybe we’re a few steps closer to producing sustainable polymer now. Scientists from the University of Bath have made a sustainable polymer. They used xylose,...
Salt-tolerant Bacteria can Turn Waste Sludge into Bioplastics
Being a big country, United States generates about 7 million tons of sewage sludge annually. It’s true that some of this waste becomes manure and...