Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments. Yet in the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year.
At the annual Recycling Council of Ontario Gala Awards Thursday night, Entropex, a leading plastics recycler, received this year's Gold award for excellence in waste reduction.
What does the coastal community of Bolinas, California have in common with the impoverished island nation of Haiti? The surprising answer is a fledgling sanitation strategy whereby human waste is composted into nutrient-rich fertilizer, all supported by research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Gary Andersen.
CERN is to host the Thorium Energy Conference ThEC13 on 27-31 October, 2013. The Conference will address the scientific and technical advances offered by thorium in alternative nuclear technologies for energy production and for the destruction of nuclear waste.
A newly developed recycling process could make landfill sites filled with old shoes a thing of the past.
Hydroxyl (OH) radicals – known as the detergent of the atmosphere – decompose isoprene in the air. This leads to the creation of new OH radicals, which are then able to purify the air of other pollutants and trace gases. The scientific community had previously only been able to speculate about this mechanism.
The awards ceremony of the student competition entitled "Sustainable is beautiful" took place on 23rd September. On this occasion, the jury awarded a mention to the project "SIB" conceived by Ivan Lopes Ferreira and Ahmed Al-Atwi and the first prize to the project "Espace Verre", conceived by Christophe Alhanko and Simon Zangger.
Applied CleanTech, a groundbreaking sewage mining solution provider of recycling systems for wastewater treatment plants, will present a study at the International Water Conference WATEC 2013 on Oct. 22-24 at the Israel Trade Fairs Center in Tel Aviv, showing that over a six-month period of 24/7 operation its sewage recycling system reduced costs by 20 percent and cut the formation of sludge formation by 55 percent in the wastewater treatment plant of one of Israel's northern cities.
WCA, Morrow Renewables, and Enerdyne Power Systems are hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony for their collaborative joint high BTU landfill gas-to-energy project at the WCA-Fort Bend County Landfill in Needville, Texas. The Fort Bend Landfill serves disposal needs for much of the greater Houston region.
The University of Cincinnati student entrepreneurship team that’s fueling worldwide media attention is at it again. Team Effuelent recently took the $40,000 top prize of the Odebrecht Award for Sustainability Development Competition with their innovative concept of “Using Trap Grease As the Raw Material for Biodiesel Feedstock Production.”
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