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Scientists Strategize Ways to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Waste Plastic

From campaigns against microplastics to news of the great Pacific garbage patch, public awareness is growing about the outsized effect plastic has on the world’s oceans. However, its effect on the air is far less obvious.

13 May 2019

Pentair Delivers Great-Tasting, Filtered Drinking Water to Target Field for the 2019 Baseball Season

Pentair, a global water treatment company, takes pride in announcing that it is now providing great-tasting, filtered drinking water to Target Field for the 2019 baseball season.

2 May 2019

Making Australia a Recycling Nation

Australia is missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity and thousands of jobs as governments and business allow a mountain of recyclable materials to be stockpiled or dumped, the Boomerang Alliance of 48 environment groups said today.

29 Apr 2019

Researchers Synthesize Clean, Cost-Effective Ammonia by SWAP Process

Ammonia—a colorless gas used for manufacturing fertilizers—can be produced by a new method that is much easier, cleaner, and cheaper compared to the existing principal method.

25 Apr 2019

Robotic System that can Sort Recycling

Every year trash companies sift through an estimated 68 million tons of recycling, which is the weight equivalent of more than 30 million cars.

17 Apr 2019

Clean Carbon Conversion Aims to Develop Green Tech Solution to Fight Constantly Growing Waste

Vincent Keller recollects alarming facts: the World Bank expects 70% waste growth by 2050.

16 Apr 2019

UCLA Engineers Design Effective Water Vapor Capture System that Could Produce Clean Water

UCLA mathematicians and engineers were inspired by how dew drops develop on spider webs and have developed a distinctive and effective water vapor capture system that could be used to obtain clean, fresh water, or to recycle industrial water that would otherwise be thrown away.

15 Apr 2019