Recycling facilities collect glass and mercury from thrown away fluorescent bulbs, but discarded lighting could also supply rare-earth metals for reuse. The 17 metals referred to as rare earths aren't ...

There are numerous ways to recycle plastics, but MacroCycle offers something new in the world of circularity: a lower-cost process that promises an 80% reduction in energy usage compared to standard ...

UNSW Canberra researcher Di He with a sample of carbon fiber recycled using a method he developed. Photo Credit, all images: UNSW Canberra Universty of South Wales (UNSW, Australia) Canberra ...

Electronic waste (e-waste) refers to discarded electronic devices such as smartphones, laptops, televisions, and other consumer or industrial electronics that are no longer functional or needed. These ...

To improve recycling rates a professor is working on new ways to separate and recycle mixed plastics. Despite consumer efforts to sort and separate recyclables, most plastic bottles still end up in ...

The clean energy transition is well underway with wind and solar power key cogs. While use of these renewables can yield significant reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, their end-of-life ...

Plastics are everywhere—in the packaging around your food, the insulation in your home, and even the parts of your phone. They make life easier and safer, but there’s a cost. Nearly 75% of plastic ...

Analysis by IDTechEx says technological refinement and commercial scaling are among the challenges still being confronted in the chemical recycling subsector. Polypropylene is among the resin types ...

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the ...

Over five informative and innovative weekly webinars, the Thermo Fisher Scientific webinar series “Sustainable Products from Plastic Waste” introduced advancements in science to create efficient ...

As electric vehicles become more common, the number of used lithium-ion batteries is soaring. These batteries contain valuable metals such as nickel, cobalt, and lithium, but current recycling methods ...

Have you ever gone to toss something into the recycling bin – a jam jar, a pizza box, a takeaway container encrusted with yesterday's lunch – and wondered if you're doing it right? Perhaps you asked ...