Municipal waste and manures will be increasingly used as a source of composting material and have the added potential benefit of suppressing plant diseases. Work at Teagasc Research Centre, Kinsealy, Ireland, in collaboration with University College Dublin, has been looking at ways of producing consistently disease-suppressive composts.
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal have developed a new class of materials designed for large-scale use in vehicle construction: thermoplastic fiber composite materials. Once they have reached the end of their useful life, they can be shredded, melted down and reused.
BMW of Riverside, California, an environmentally conscious business in the area, has received the annual Environmental Excellence Award presented by the Public Works Department, City of Riverside for following clean water practices using new technologies to lessen pollutants and also by decreasing water consumption.
General Environmental Management Inc. (GEM) has declared that it has decided to focus fully on the Brazilian waste-to-energy project by Bio-Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (BESG).
ESM Equipment and Complete Recycling are collaborating to offer a solar panel installation and manufacturing firm with an efficient and economical way to transport and manage by-products produced from the process of solar panel installation in rural regions.
Hydro will build Norway’s largest plant for aluminium recycling at Karmøy. The plant will have an initial capacity of 35,000 mt. The total investment will be approximately NOK 260 million and will establish close to 40 new jobs in the plant.
Over the past few years there has been a resurgence in biomass energy sector as attitudes and regulations again have favored renewable energy. As a result, demand for biomass, including forest residues, urban wood, hog fuel and agricultural waste, has increased.
Alcoa, an early adopter of Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) certification for its Kawneer architectural aluminum products, joined in the launch of the Green Products Innovation Institute (GPII), which took place yesterday at Google’s campus in Mountain View, California.
Student researchers at Northeastern University have designed an apparatus to convert plastic waste into clean energy without releasing harmful emissions.
Owens-Illinois, Inc. (NYSE: OI), the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging, today released the results of a comprehensive global study of the complete life cycle of glass containers. O-I's life cycle assessment (LCA), which measures the carbon emissions generated by each phase in the life of a glass container, is foundational to the company's ambitious new sustainability program.
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