Recycling

Bill Maher has (almost) never found a famous man accused of misconduct that he hasn’t wanted to defend. The late-night comic, who once warned that the #MeToo Movement was creating a “police state” for sex, has defended MSNBC’s Chris Matthews after he was accused of sexual harassment (and mocked his…

Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith has accused Premier Daniel Andrews of doing a “sweetheart deal” with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the state intervened to approve a rejected lead battery recycling plant proposed by a Chinese state-owned corporation in the state’s east. The proposed Hazelwood North facility in Gippsland…

"I have never been loved by anyone the way that you have loved me, and I am so sorry that I haven't known how to love you back." Zoe Lister-Jones utters this beautiful line with such emotion, you might expect it to be part of a dashing romantic monologue. The…

AP January 30, 2021 | 2:07 PM PASSAIC, N.J. (AP) — A huge fire engulfed a recycling plant overnight in northern New Jersey and raged into Saturday as firefighters battled flames, wind and frigid cold that turned the water from their hoses into treacherous ice. Officials warned it could burn…

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The European Union has announced a €2.9bn ($3.5bn, £2.57bn) state aid program to build a full production chain for battery tech, from the extraction of raw materials to the design and manufacturing of battery cells, and their recycling and disposal. The goal of the project is to not only spur…

World beginning to act on pollution     The Electric Vehicle Association of the Philippines (EVAP) came out  last  week with a recommendation to the government to  support the electric vehicle sector in reaction to the spate of closures of car-manufacturing plants in the country. It called for support of  Senate Bill…

Suburbs in Melbourne's west are on smoke alert because of a fire at a recycling centre. The blaze started before 6am on Monday and is now under control, according to Fire Rescue Victoria. As Melbourne swelters through a heatwave, the Eastern Freeway was also closed outbound on Monday because of…

What appeared to be a land grab in Alfred Road behind a recycling depot has raised concerns among residents in the area. FENCED OFF: Zinc sheets were erected as fencing around a field in Alfred Road, behind a recycling depot, last week, arousing suspicions that a land grab was in…

Degradable, bio-based polymers offer options for chemical recycling, and they can be a tool to store and release useful molecules. Scientists have developed a class of sugar-based polymers that are degradable through acid hydrolysis. The researchers also integrated "cargo" molecules in the polymer, which are designed to split off after…