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Circular Economy of Plastics can Help Solve Environmental Problems

Plastics have extremely useful properties: they help us keep our food fresh, make it possible to safely operate electrical devices and create various solutions in the medical field, such as disposable syringes and artificial joints.

20 May 2020

Making Palm Oil Production More Environment- and Climate-Friendly

Palm oil is often associated with tropical deforestation above all else. However, this is only one side of the story, as agricultural scientists from the University of Göttingen and the IPB University Bogor (Indonesia) show in a new study.

20 May 2020

Is this the Future of Solar Energy Generation?

Imagine the environmental benefits if we could simply paint solar cells onto the roofs of our houses, or onto any surface for that matter.

20 May 2020

Optimized Turbofan Engines to Achieve Cleaner, More Sustainable Air Transport

The SACOC project forms part of the Clean Sky 2 program—an aspiring community initiative to realize air transport that is cleaner and more sustainable.

19 May 2020

Less Polluting Economy and Lifestyles Key to Climate Change Mitigation

In order to mitigate climate change impacts and achieve a more sustainable society, it is necessary to transform the current energy system based on fossil fuels into a model based on renewable energies, and to change society's lifestyles, accepting less mobility, low-carbon diets and smaller-sized dwellings.

19 May 2020

Green and Sustainable Method to Derive Chitin from Food Waste

At Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, researchers have designed a green method to produce chitin, which involves fermenting two forms of food waste—discarded fruit and prawn shells.

11 May 2020

Photosynthetic Processes Re-Engineered to Create Renewable Bio-Factories

Hydrogen is an essential commodity with over 60 million tons produced globally every year. However over 95 percent of it is made by steam reformation of fossil fuels, a process that is energy intensive and produces carbon dioxide.

8 May 2020

New Membrane-Based Technique to Recover Ammonia from Urine

Ammonia is an essential component of fertilizer and it plays a crucial role in assisting plant growth and ultimately offers food for populations worldwide.

7 May 2020

Enacting Stricter Standard Could Motivate New Green Technology Development

When a government agency considers tightening a standard on a pollutant, it often considers the proportion of firms that can meet the new standard, because a higher proportion suggests a more feasible standard.

6 May 2020