Category "Waste"

‘Recycling is for drunks, addicts and babushkas’ – inside Russia’s mafia-dominated waste industry.

Thermopapier enthält den hormonellen Desintegrator Bisphenol A, ist nicht recycelbar und stark kontaminierend.

Citizens are invited to bring their plastic waste to the lab, design their own custom street furniture, and 3D-print it with the help of a robotic arm and on-site recycling facilities.

Dass kalter Kaffee auch sinnvoll upgecycelt werden kann, beweist Julian Lechner mit seinem Berliner Unternehmen Kaffeeform.

Either don’t use plastic bags or be far more cautious about how you dispose of them.

Our planet has a plastic problem. Of the billions of tons produced, only a small part, less than 10%, has been recycled. The rest is thrown into dumps. It is burnt, or ends up in the ocean.

A Spanish company is rolling out a deinking technology capable of removing pigments from a variety of recovered resins, a step that eases processing and boosts value.

BASF’s ChemCycling project is a new innovative way to reutilize the plastic wastes by thermochemical processes to produce syngas or oils.

Imports of 16 types of solid waste, including compressed car scraps and scrapped ships, will be banned from Dec 31, and another 16 types will be banned from the end of next year. China will completely stop importing solid waste by the end of 2020.

Domestic and industrial wastewater contains substrates and nutrients that could be used to produce biofuels and bioplastics.