Not all plastics are equal—some types and colors are easier to recycle than others. For instance, black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene, usually end up in landfills ...

Five color variants of the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. The dark green color strain is the wild-type and the others are pigment production pathway mutants or deletants. When aircraft parts, wind ...

The GFRP material has traditionally been very difficult to recycle. While thermoplastics, the type of plastic used in milk bottles, can be melted and easily reused, the glass-fiber composites are ...

The plastic waste can be used to make high-performance carbon materials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and porous ...

Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth have developed a way to use ...

Creating waste goes hand in hand with modern society. But how we dispose of it has changed significantly in recent decades. Disposal sites have largely moved from small, unregulated landfills where ...

Tesla co-founder JB Straubel launched Redwood Materials in 2017 to help the industry shift away from mining minerals and bolster the EV industry’s sustainability. JB Straubel’s Redwood Materials has ...

Shawn Wolf, another Victoria artist, has created his own take on the throne from Game of Thrones. In that story, warriors beat their swords into a throne for the new ruler. In Wolf’s work, swords have ...

How do bottle and can recycling centers make money if they’re paying you for the materials you drop off? Recycling centers are the rare operation where you, the consumer, end up making money. But ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - It’s time to say goodbye to February and hello to March. Here are a few fun things happening around Washtenaw County from Friday, Feb. 28, to Sunday, March 2. Bikes will make ...

When you buy a new iPhone, Apple takes it back when you're done with it. When you finish a bottle of Coke in Germany, the manufacturer pays for its recycling. So why does your 4,000-pound SUV – ...

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