April 30, 2020
A plan to recycle wastewater and make it drinkable could see the delivery of water to city dwellers become much more efficient. Using Houston as a model, researchers at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering have come up with an idea that could reduce the need for surface water (from rivers, reservoirs or wells) by 28%, through recycling wastewater to make it drinkable once again. While the cost
...April 27, 2020
A research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Water Cycle Research Center has developed a high-efficiency, adsorbent material using PET waste bottles. The new material is expected to help solve the problem of environmental toxins and antibiotic-resistant bacteria caused by leaks of antibiotics into water. Due to high rates of antibiotic use, South Korea is categorised as a
...April 19, 2020
Australia is one of the biggest producers of municipal waste per capita in the world. Every year, Australia saves 25 million tonnes of waste from going to landfill. But it takes very little to make a truckload of separated waste unusable, which is the general waste problem. Even some of the most environmentally savvy people don’t fully understand where everything goes in our complicated waste and
...April 16, 2020
There's an emerging market to pay farmers to store more carbon in the soil by using improved agricultural practices. But some scientists are questioning whether these efforts will actually help slow global warming.
April 15, 2020
What is old is new again for the food industry as consumers become aware of the virtues of turning damaged apples and other fruit into purees, canned foods, breakfast items and other products.
April 6, 2020
The mission: create an open data-sharing application that chemicals and plastics producers can use to inform circular production processes.
April 3, 2020
One key is to design out waste in the first place.
April 1, 2020
About eight million pieces of plastic make their way into the world’s oceans each day, representing a global-scale pollution problem that is not going anywhere without serious intervention. Bioplastics — plastics produced from biomass feedstocks — could help solve the world’s plastics problem but are struggling to wrestle market share away from conventional plastics.
...March 31, 2020
Sharing probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind during a pandemic. But countless thousands are rising to the occasion.
March 23, 2020
Heavy metals in drinking water represent a serious threat to human health in many parts of the world — particularly developing countries — with the possibility of some heavy metals accumulating in the body over time and leading to cancers and organ damage. In addition to the health threats of contaminated water linked to poor sanitation, metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic can be present
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