Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2024

Read the full story from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). A new article covering an overview and trends of plastic production and degradation technology using microorganisms has been published.

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Brag

MAY 2, 2023

While they are biodegradable in the ambient environment, they are brittle and cannot easily be melt-processed and recycled. CSU states that PHAs are a class of polymers naturally created by living microorganisms or synthetically produced from biorenewable feedstocks. The work was supported by the U.S.

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Brag

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in funding for R&D projects to advance next generation plastic technologies to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of single-use plastics. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. ” According to DOE’s EERE, less than ten percent of plastics are recycled currently.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 14, 2023

Companies constantly innovate with technology and redesign their packaging. Read the full story at Packaging Dive. Here’s a look at five recent examples of product redesigns, material switches and sustainable packaging solutions on Packaging Dive’s radar.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In recent years, ExxonMobil has deceptively touted its “advanced recycling technology” as a proprietary “breakthrough in recycling technology,” says the complaint. But this purported breakthrough technology has been available to ExxonMobil to employ in their production operations for decades.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 5, 2021

The Phoenix Suns and Mercury basketball teams are partnering with the plant-based fiber-technology Footprint in a deal to rename their arena and do away with single-use plastic at the facility. Read the full story from Bloomberg. Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 17, 2024

Bpacks, a London-based sustainable packaging startup, has revealed its new bark-based packaging technology, offering a biodegradable alternative that integrates effortlessly with existing plastic production infrastructure.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2022

Read the full story from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Researchers have developed a biodegradable system based on silk to replace microplastics added to agricultural products, paints, and cosmetics.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Read the full story from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Researchers have found that the bacterium Ideonella sakaiensis can fermentatively convert environmentally problematic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) plastics into highly biodegradable poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) plastics.

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Frontiers

MARCH 13, 2023

Some of these plastics, called compostable plastics, can be engineered to biodegrade under controlled conditions. However, “we can and will improve it since automatic sorting is a key technology to make compostable plastics a sustainable alternative to recycling.”

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Brag

MAY 27, 2021

Therefore, DOE will support various projects to develop viable solutions for converting plastic films to more valuable materials and designing plastics that are more recyclable and biodegradable.

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Brag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

International Trade Administration (ITA), the demand for new bioplastic materials and innovative processing technologies is high, contributing to the European and Italian plastics circular economy policy. Hutton According to a January 24, 2023, item published by the U.S. According to ITA, large investments and U.S. ITA states that U.S.

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Brag

JANUARY 31, 2023

The SPI states that “even when robust processes are developed to deconstruct existing plastics, the demand for plastics remains, leading to a critical need for new plastic materials that have the same advantages as current plastics but can be economically recycled or biodegraded safely in the environment.”

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Physics World

JUNE 24, 2021

The researchers describe their approach in Advanced Materials Technologies. This “indirect” printing approach is amenable to use with many types of materials, from biodegradable thermoplastics (such as polycaprolactone), to resins, silicones, ceramics, hydrogels and more. Courtesy: Cathal O’Connell). A stand-out technique.

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Physics World

MAY 14, 2021

Another carbon-based compound, cellulose, has previously been employed as both a substrate and dielectric, and has the advantage of being both naturally biodegradable and the most abundant polymer on Earth. The nanocellulose, which is naturally biodegradable, can also be recycled, as can the paper substrate.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As often in times of health crises, new medical technologies have emerged, driven by the sense of urgency and extra funding, that address difficulties of existing methods and could change healthcare paradigms for years to come. In the global fight against COVID-19, around 6.8 Courtesy: Hai Wang).

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Clothing, electronic devices, medical devices, and numerous other technologies that make the world a better place exist because of the industrialization of plastic. Biodegradable plastic alternatives, like the seaweed-based straws offered by Loliware can help ensure that when plastics end up in the environment they will safely decompose.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Due to the natural abundance, stability and low toxicity of clays, Jon Otto Fossum , a physicist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , and his colleagues wanted to see if they could be used to create structural colours. They started their research using the synthetic clay Na-fluorohectorite.

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Breezometer

JUNE 1, 2021

Unlike User-Centered Design, Human-Centered Design revolves around complementing the user’s needs, behavior, and tendencies, rather than having them adjust to the technology and the design. It’s important to try and catch tiny habits that will allow persuasive technology to blend into user routines.

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Water Research & Technology

JANUARY 5, 2023

There are claims regarding their biodegradability, UV resistance, thermal resistance, self-healing properties. In your opinion, what are the most important questions to be asked/answered in this field of research? New and advanced plastics and composites are breaking through in research and development. How do you spend your spare time?

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Vermont Law

MARCH 9, 2015

To begin with, plastic manufacturing companies have little incentive to switch from oil-based polymers to more sustainable, biodegradable options, or to use recycled material. Unfortunately, there are very few large-scale projects able to tackle the magnitude of our plastic predicament. Larger groups that employ booms and filters, like the .

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Incineration, thermal desorption, chemical stabilization, landfarming (biodegradation), and offsite landfilling are some options. This is becoming a popular technology and I hope it works over the long term. But what do you do with it after it's dug up? Will we have a Superduperfund?

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Biodegradable : Used to describe substances and the ability of microorganisms (bacteria, algae) to break it down. There may also be requirements on what technologies must be used for mitigation such as the use of catalytic converters in cars that used older lead fuel (6).

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Kathleen is also the vice president and co-chair of the board of directors at E8 Angels and a manager of the Decarbon8 fund, an impact investment organization that focuses on climate technology and sustainability start-ups. That’s what I love about impact investing,” Kathleen said.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2022

And none of these commonly used plastics are biodegradable. But in this new technology, the U.S. And plastic production is set to double in the next two decades. Only 9 percent of that is recycled, so 91 percent ends up in landfills. was late to the game.

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