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WELTEC BIOPOWER Builds Biogas Plant in Finland

WELTEC BIOPOWER recently commissioned a biogas plant near Turku in southwestern Finland. This region is characterised by livestock farms and therefore the 250-kW plant runs entirely on liquid manure. The energy plant belongs to a group of three pig farmers. In this project, the German plant builder cooperates with its long-standing Finnish partner Doranova.

From WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH 22 Mar 2021

Lumos Makes Major Environmental Commitment in Milestone Partnership With Hinckley Recycling

Lumos (“Lumos”), Nigeria’s market leader in home solar systems making reliable, clean power accessible to all, announces a major environmental commitment - via a new partnership with Hinckley Recycling (“Hinckley”) - to recycle Lumos’ batteries.

From Lumos 19 Mar 2021

New Technique to Recycle Polystyrene into Value-Added Products

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from Clemson University have invented a low-energy, green process to break down polystyrene, a kind of plastic used extensively in cutlery, disposable food containers, foam packaging materials, and several other applications.

18 Mar 2021

How Plastic Bags are being Recycled into Fabric to Fight Against Pollution

Fabrics of the future with self-cooling and water evaporating properties could be made from polyethylene?—?a material commonly found in plastic bags.

16 Mar 2021

New Insulation Takes Heat Off

Waste cooking oil, sulfur and wool offcuts have been put to good use by green chemists at Flinders University to produce a sustainable new kind of housing insulation material.

16 Mar 2021

Bins Bulge as Lockdown Trends Compound Outdated Recycling System

New research has revealed a recycling crisis in the UK with households simply running out of room in their bins and unable to recycle properly.

11 Mar 2021

Biobased-Polymer Membrane is Suitable for Oil Spill Remediation

Polymer researchers from the University of Groningen and the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, both located in the Netherlands, have designed a new polymer membrane from biobased malic acid.

10 Mar 2021

Research Will Create New Materials from Recycling’s Waste Products

Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a leading recycling business based in Livingston, to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process.

3 Mar 2021

To Sustain a Thriving Café Culture, We Must Ditch the Disposable Cup

Takeaway coffees – they’re a convenient start for millions of people each day, but while the caffeine perks us up, the disposable cups drag us down, with nearly 300 billion ending up in landfill each year.

1 Mar 2021

Students and SMEs Hold Keys to Ending Waste

Robots that can sort e-waste ready for recycling and 100 per cent biodegradable food storage inspired by bananas are just two of the award-winning ideas from the inaugural India-Australia Circular Economy (I-ACE) Hackathon held this month, hosted by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, and NITI Aayog Atal Innovation Mission (AIM).

23 Feb 2021