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Reusing Old Electric Vehicle Batteries to Power Cities
When some electric vehicle batteries near the end of their life, they get recycled through a smelting method that emits chemicals into the air. As an alternative, the European Union’s Interreg North-West …
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Turning Plastic Waste into a Soil Additive
Scientists at University of California, Riverside (UCR) have devised a way to convert plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal that, when added to farmland soil, can improve water retention, …
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Wax Worms Could Revolutionize Recycling Plastic
Scientists have found that wax worms (which are the caterpillar larvae of wax moths) have saliva with two enzymes that break down durable polyethylene—a widely produced plastic. The discovery was made when …
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Apollo mission photography restored, pulverizing glass for coastal restoration, bowfin regurgitalite and more
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Recycling Glass into Sand and Gravel to Fight Climate Change
Founded in 2020, Glass Half Full is a New Orleans-based startup that recycles glass to make sand and gravel to be used in disaster relief, construction, new products and boosting coastal restoration—an …
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