A ruthenium catalyst facilitated the polymerization, or polymer addition. Industrial firms have used this catalyst to make ...

The material is durable ... the world should reevaluate its relationship with plastic and learn to use plastic waste in a sustainable way. Construction is one effective way to do this.

Epoxy is a great and useful material typically prepared by mixing two components together. But often we find ourselves mixing too much epoxy for the job at hand, and we end up with some waste left ...

Municipal waste is incredibly diverse, from plastics to paper to food scraps, its composition changes depending on geography and season. Our process uses enzymes to break down these materials into ...

EU’s €2.3 million push to recycle nuclear waste into rare earth elements critical for everything from smartphones to MRI ...

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For a circular economy to work, companies need to start using waste as raw materials and reduce the use of new resources to make goods. Consumers have a big role in the transition away from a ...

The method could provide a sustainable use for some of the approximately 50 million tons of e-waste discarded each year, only 20% of which is recycled, according to Amin Zadehnazari, a ...

A Cornell-led research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO 2), a ...