London’s caffeine habit could soon provide an eco-friendly energy kick to its buses, including its iconic red double decker.Some six thousand litres of oil extracted from ground coffee waste will be added to fuel tanks of the city’s transport authority on Monday — enough to power a bus for a Read more…
Jakarta. Indonesia and Denmark signed an action plan on Tuesday (28/11) for their 2017-2020 partnership, marking a new chapter in bilateral relations. The action plan is a follow-up to the Indonesia-Denmark Innovative Partnership Agreement signed during a visit by Queen Margrethe II in 2015. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Prime Read more…
The extent of the damage wrought by plastic on our environment is increasingly well known. Yet, this harmful material permeates the majority of the consumer items we buy and use. Mounds of trash, garbage islands in the ocean and the suffering and death of countless fish, birds and other animals Read more…
New Delhi, Nov 26 (UNI) Alappuzha is among five cities of the world whose efforts to fight the problem of solid waste have been recognised as success stories by the United Nations environment body UNEP. Besides Alappuzha, the other cities with a solid approach to waste are Osaka in Japan, Read more…
Recently, some crazy scientists in Bristol, UK have discovered how to charge their smartphones with their own pee. By using micro-organisms which feed off their urine and generate electrons as a by-product, they have managed to produce enough electricity to charge a phone or power some lights. Although we can Read more…
In spite of the measurement struggle, providing control and monitoring capability in recycling operations globally is a vital capability for cost effective functioning of collection and processing operations. Waste chute collection and compacting systems are equipment commonly encountered when dealing with multi-unit residential systems, plastic material regrind operations, waste recycling Read more…
Doranova from Finland has teamed up with Binh Duong Water Supply Sewerage Environment Co., Ltd. (BIWASE) to implement the second phase of a waste-to-energy project in Vietnam. In the first phase, another Finnish company provided waste separation lines on the same site. According to Mikko Saalasti, head of renewable energy Read more…
With the mounds of garbage lying uncollected in many urban areas, imagine what would happen if county governments could manage it better at the tap of a button. Sounds far-fetched? Not really, because 23-year-old Abraham Mwaura, a fourth-year student at the Technical University of Mombasa, has created an application known Read more…
Cigarette butts — used cigarette filters — are a lingering pollution hazard because they mainly contain cellulose acetate which is non-biodegradable. However, the cellulose acetate makes them an attractive starting material for valorisation to porous carbons. Such valorization is in line with the current trend to move away from coal-based Read more…
Plastic pollution is arguably one of the most pressing environmental issues today, with an estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic entering the oceans each year, and researchers predicting that there will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. But in the same way that the global community Read more…