Curiosidades

Uma pesquisadora brasileira desenvolveu uma embalagem comestível que prolonga a validade dos alimentos. Composto de amido de mandioca e açúcares, o produto está sendo estudado desde o início deste ano e já despertou o interesse de importantes empresas do setor alimentício. Na corrida pelos produtos inteligentes e biodegradáveis, considerados como …

Centralised treatment of food waste using methods such as in-vessel composting or anaerobic digestion can cause more greenhouse gases than household treatments using Food Waste Digesters (FWDs), says an environmental study. MRW reports that the study titled Comparison of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Centralised and Household Treatments of Food …

Engineers at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) are busy installing a new woodchip-powered generator, which will be more than 80% efficient when running at full power. The woodchip-powered combined heat and power plant (CHP) will generate up to 100kW of electricity, enough to meet the instantaneous power demands of …

The publication is part of efforts to raise farmer awareness ahead of the expected introduction of a Statutory Producer Responsibility (PR) scheme. The main thrust of the scheme should see non-packaging plastic producers and importers given responsibility for funding collection of the waste, with every farm across the country given …

Shenzhen City in south China‘‘s Guangdong Province is considering to pass an ordinance to end free use of plastic shopping bags supplied by retailers. Xinhuanet reports that the city‘‘s legislative affairs office has been soliciting opinions on a revised draft of an environmental protection regulation that would end the three-decade-long …

AHN reports that a large Hong Kong supermarket chain reduced its plastic bag use by 30 million bags. ParknShop opened its no-bag day Wednesday providing biodegradable plastic bags in lieu of regular plastic containers. The campaign to make shopping a more environment-friendly activity was further boosted by a proposal to …

India has evinced interest in the ‘‘Recycling Centre Concept‘‘ offered by The Netherlands-based World Wide Recycling that focusses on reusing waste fractions for new products and electricity generation. The Hindu newspaper reports that when fully developed, this waste management concept turns more than 80 per cent of existing waste streams …

Duas empresas cearenses se uniram para comercializar um tipo de casa que se propõe a ser uma alternativa na briga pela redução do déficit habitacional brasileiro, além de ajudar a preservar o meio ambiente. A casa em questão é feita de plástico reciclado e foi desenvolvida com a intenção de …

significant contribution to reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint The latest figures from APEAL (the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging) show that 66 per cent of steel packaging is recycled in Europe with strong growth recorded across the continent. That amounts to over 2.5 million tonnes of …

Um plástico biodegradável que se decompõe no solo em apenas 45 dias foi criado por pesquisadores brasileiros e franceses a partir de embalagens pós-consumo de PET, um polímero fabricado a partir da resina poli(tereftalato de etileno). O segredo para o desenvolvimento do novo polímero foi utilizar em sua síntese um …