Category "Waste"

A team led by researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a robotic system that can detect if an object is paper, metal, or plastic.

It takes hundreds of years for disposable diapers to decompose in landfills – but this new machine can turn 220 pounds of dirty diapers into clean, raw materials in a single hour.

Students from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Italy developed a cone to hold French fries made from potato peels, while the start-up Chip[s] Board developed an MDF-like board material made from peel waste.

Pure-Cycle Technologies treibt die Inbetriebnahme einer ersten Recyclinganlage voran, um Altpolypropylen in einem revolutionären Verfahren zu neuwertigem Polypropylen (PP) aufzuarbeiten.

Valdís Steinarsdóttir uses animal hides to create a plastic-like material which can then be used to package meat products from the same animal.

Eine von Henkel entwickelte Software zur Recycelbarkeit von Verpackungen hat den kritischen Praxistest bei Fraunhofer-Forschern bestanden.

Bioplastic sounds like a welcome eco-alternative to the many plastic products we use daily. But the reality isn't so simple.

A pop-up restaurant that is built from recycled food packaging and that composts all of its leftovers was set up at the WantedDesign Manhattan fair.

In this Dezeen article about Bolon, Michaela Ljungdahl explains why the flooring brand invested in a vinyl-recycling plant for its factory in Sweden.

The Plastic Pact agreement tends to make producers fully responsible for plastic packaging and manufacturing.