Recycling

Amid an escalating plastic pollution crisis that threatens “near permanent contamination of the natural environment,” the fossil fuel and plastics industries say they have a not-so-surprising solution: recycling. To be more precise, they’re advocating for “chemical” or “advanced” recycling. The American Chemistry Council, an industry lobbying group whose members include…

$1.54 million of grants available to assist waste reduction and education programsFunding builds on $4.5 million invested in WA since 2017 on reducing waste and increasing recycling More than $1.5 million in community and business based grants is being made available by the McGowan Government as part of its commitment to…

In its quarterly report on Friday, Neometals said SMS had successfully completed due diligence on the pilot plant performance and the two companies were “now finalising definitive transaction documents for incorporated joint venture”.Neometals, which started life as a gold play, was one of the first movers in lithium in Australia.The…

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A typical recycling process converts large quantities of items made of a single material into more of the same. However, this approach isn't feasible for old electronic devices, or "e-waste," because they contain small amounts of many different materials that cannot be readily separated. Now, in ACS Omega, researchers report…

THE top three greenest cities in the UK are York, Cardiff and Oxford, according to a study. Researchers looked at the nation’s eco-friendly habits - taking into account a host of factors such as tendency to buy refurbished items, recycling rates, methods of travel – and even time in the…

Monks at Thailand's Chak Daeng Temple have expanded a plastic recycling program to help fight coronavirus and reduce the pandemic's environmental impact. NBC News' Larissa Johnsson reports.July 25, 2020Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan urban farmer Francis Wachira credits a soil recycling company with keeping him afloat financially during the coronavirus crisis: it helped him to start producing herbs and vegetables on his tiny Nairobi plot. Ted Gachanga and Michael Kanywiria agronomists who co-own Sprout Organic company display samples of…

Tastier pork comes from pigs that eat the barley left over after making the Japanese liquor shochu. A team of professional brewers and academic farmers state that nutrients in the leftover fermented barley may reduce the animals' stress, resulting in better tasting sirloin and fillets. "Kyushu, in Western Japan is…

Tastier pork comes from pigs that eat the barley left over after making the Japanese liquor shochu. A team of professional brewers and academic farmers state that nutrients in the leftover fermented barley may reduce the animals' stress, resulting in better tasting sirloin and fillets. "Kyushu, in Western Japan is…