Browsing: Recycling

Reusing more of the copper, aluminum, and other minerals in our old electronics could lessen the need for mining.

NASA is funding the development of engineered bugs that eat and excrete metal

Such membranes have potential for water desalinatization and other advanced filtering.

Authorities have come across a giant mound of 250,000 scrap tires in rural South Carolina, so spread out that it occupies 50 hectares and is visible from space. A transportation and recycling operation of the mound has began since then. The rural clearing in which the tires were dumped is practically impossible to notice, since its only accessible […]

Take a look at your town; take a look at the people around you, at the streets, and the garbage cans. How much of the garbage do you think is recycled ? After that, think about how much trash gets labeled as “non-recyclable” by the recycling facility and will end up in a dump somwhere. […]

Efficient space-born recipe requires no metal