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New technique could accelerate waste-to-methane production

In a recent study, environmental engineering master‘s student Bappi Chowdhury and his colleagues found that adding conductive materials to the waste products could potentially turn them into a reliable feedstock, allowing for a production rate of up to 70 percent more biomethane—a renewable energy source—from a mixture of fat, oil …

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Recycling robot ‘Daisy‘ part of Apple‘s effort to end mining for resources

Apple‘s efforts to improve its recycling has an end goal of becoming a "closed-loop" manufacturer in the future, an extremely difficult goal to accomplish, and one that would end the need to mine for new materials if achieved by the iPhone maker. Link to full article

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Recycling is becoming so expensive that some towns don’t know what to do

WESTFIELD — On a recent afternoon here, with urgency in the air, local officials huddled to consider what until recently was unthinkable. Should they abandon their popular curbside recycling program? Or spend millions to build a plant to process plastic and paper on their own? Link to full article

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Mobile QUBE Renewable Anaerobic Digestion Tech to Tackle Delhi’s Air Quality Crisis

Somerset, UK based transportable anaerobic digestion specialist, QUBE Renewables, is working on a project in India with Haryana University to install fifty ‘QUBES’ in the paddy fields of the Punjab in a bid to tackle Delhi’s air quality crisis. Link:

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