New Golden Design Rules from the Consumer Goods Forum Driving Action Towards a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging. In collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum , a cross-value chain group of major brand owners, recyclers and plastics associations are working on a set of ‘golden rules’...
Researchers Use Recycled Glass to Develop New Eco-friendly 3D Printable Concrete. Researchers from RMIT University have developed a new eco-friendly 3D printable concrete material that uses recycled glass as an aggregate. Conventional concrete formulations tend to rely on natural river sand as...
How Bricks Could Prove Central in the Drive to Net Zero. A Heriot-Watt University professor and co-founder of clean tech company Kenoteq , Professor Gabriela Medero, is calling for an overhaul of the construction industry during COP26, recommending an urgent shift to a circular economy...
Building out of Concrete, but Without Pouring Concrete. EPFL researchers have built a footbridge prototype using reinforced-concrete blocks from walls of a building being renovated. The blocks were cut into individual pieces on site and assembled into a prestressed arch. This project, which...
Developing Next-Gen, Smart Engine Fan Blades. The 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) is transforming the way companies in many industries are manufacturing their products, and the aerospace industry is no exception. For example, aircraft manufacturers are improving manufacturing processes...
A research report commissioned by Material Focus and conducted by Giraffe Innovation has been published revealing that the UK is on track to lose around £13 million worth of critical raw materials, due mainly to a lack of advanced recovery technologies. Potential ways to recover the 300,000...
Cycle for Sustainable Plastics. On the path to climate neutrality, the development of new raw material sources is of central importance. The Carbon2Chem project is investigating, among other things, where cross-sector networking between the steel and chemical industries is possible. The...
University of Delaware researchers LaShanda Korley (left) and Thomas Epps, III, are co-authors of a Science magazine article calling for a concerted effort to address the urgent crisis of plastics pollution. With collaborators from the United Kingdom and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in...
Bacteria Serves Tasty Solution to Plastic Crisis. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have devised a novel way of tackling the mounting issue of plastic pollution… by using bacteria to transform plastic waste into vanilla flavouring! #News #GreenTechnology #Plastics #Waste ...
More Sustainable Mortars and Concrete with Optimal Thermal and Mechanical Efficiency. Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) are studying and optimising the mechanical and thermal properties of new mortars and concrete made using...
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