A new partnership in the landmark smart city project from Toyota signals increasing interest and investment in the future of hydrogen energy production. ENEOS will provide hydrogen fuel and services to the Toyota Woven City project, according to a recent announcement.
The FiberEUse project, initiated by the EU’s Horizon 2020 program, aims to tackle composite recycling and emphasize the importance of moving towards a circular economy.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
25 May 2021
Swedish Algae Factory cultivates diatoms and harvests their unique shells to make distinct light altering, absorbing, and binding materials that compare favorably to similar synthetic materials found in a wide variety of industrial products. Two of the more promising applications of this material are in next-generation solar panels and UV-blocking skin products.
Chemical recycling is a potential alternative to mechanical recycling that could improve recycling rates and prevent plastic from reaching landfills.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
21 May 2021
Honey bees are just one of the 20,000 known species of bees. Although small in number, they have an enormous role in supporting global food production. Worryingly, the numbers of these critical pollinators are dropping.
By Kerry Taylor-Smith
20 May 2021
Plastic waste is increasingly being recycled into plastic flakes or pellets that can be remolded into new products. Global brands are increasingly using these recycled plastics over virgin plastics in their products and packaging. Better Plastic™ is one such product, created by Indian company Banyan, using proprietary plastic recycling technology.
In many developed parts of the world, older residential buildings are energy inefficient, and so renovating them to make them more efficient is a major opportunity to reduce carbon emissions. A German startup called ecoworks has taken this notion a step further and devised eco-friendly building solutions that include turning renovated houses into decentralized power plants.
DyeCoo has developed a revolutionary textile system that it hopes will have a significant impact on carbon emissions and the environment if it is adopted on a worldwide scale.
Award-winning cleantech company, CCm Technologies, has developed an innovative method of producing sustainable fertilizers from captured carbon dioxide. The technology is set to significantly reduce the volume of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from industrial power generators, while at the same time limiting the negative impact of unsustainable fertilizers.
Kabadiwalla Connect – an Indian technology start-up – is working to transform waste collection and management in cities in the Global South by using the Internet of Things (IoT) and building on the contribution of existing informal networks.