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Cryo-Mill Used to Crush Electronic Waste into Separated Powders

A idea to simplify electronic waste recycling was recently proposed by a team of researchers from Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science. They recommend crushing the electronic waste into nanodust.

22 Mar 2017

Converting Food Waste into Sustainable Rubber for Tires

A team of researchers at The Ohio State University report that food waste can partially replace the petroleum-based filler that has been used to manufacture tires for over a century.

7 Mar 2017

Paper Industry's Sludge and Fly Ash Could be Used as Raw Material in Plastics

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland examined, as part of the EU's Reffibre project, whether new industrial applications could be developed for various types of sludge and fly ash generated by the paper and board industry.

28 Feb 2017

New Method to Leach Lithium and Cobalt from Recycled Batteries

Phones, tablets, electric vehicles, and several other applications are powered by rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Unfortunately, the batteries are typically only functional for two to three years, and the devices that they power can fail.

8 Feb 2017

New Material Could Help Produce Hydrogen and Clean Water from Wastewater

A material made by combining a metal and a polymer can help generate hydrogen and fresh water from wastewater.

23 Jan 2017

Researchers Find New Approach to Effectively Recycle Greenhouse Gas

Led by Yilin Hu, UCI assistant professor of molecular biology & biochemistry at the Ayala School of Biological Sciences, the researchers found that they could successfully express the reductase component of the nitrogenase enzyme alone in the bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii and directly use this bacterium to convert CO2 to CO.

9 Jan 2017