Recycling

IMAGE: Bradlee Heckmann, Ph.D., of St. Jude Immunology view more  Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are advancing understanding of a potential Alzheimer's disease treatment. The work focuses on LC3-associated endocytosis (LANDO) and its role in neuroinflammation. The results appeared as an advance online…

Melissa Yeager Arizona RepublicPublished 1:33 PM EDT Aug 12, 2020When the Venetian Resort on the Las Vegas Strip reopened in June, it made face masks easily accessible. It placed amenity kits with disposable masks in rooms daily. It offered masks at doors around the property. Employees receive fresh masks at the start of…

Australian Organics Recycling Association (AORA)The Australian Organics Recycling Association (AORA), the national voice of the organics recycling industry, believes that last night’s Four Corners contains valuable lessons for Australia in better managing its waste and recycling tasks.Plastic Wars, a PBS Frontline production from the USA, was featured on Four Corners…

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Wound onto a spool, the viscose filament yarn was spun from recycled cotton provided in form of cellulose sheets. Researchers at the Fraunhofer IAP have found a way to turn cotton clothes such as jeans into new high-quality garments rather than lowly cleaning rags. Credit: Fraunhofer IAP The technical hurdles…

Every effort needs to be made to to save the country's recycling sector as an increase of plastic waste as a result of Covid-19 threatens nature, writes Zaynab Sadan and Lethabo Pholotho.One of the awkward realities of the Covid-19 crisis has been the collision of nature and humanity.This has been the…

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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