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Turning Plastics to Biodegradable Plastic!

Bio-Batch technology is a process which enables the microorganisms in the environmentto metabolize the molecular structure of plastic films into an inert humus-like form that isharmless to the environment Link:

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New device turns waste into energy

TAMOUNG, Cambodia – Nget Loun’s rickety old thatched house is typical of Cambodia’s impoverished countryside, but it holds a surprise inside: a state of the art, environmentally friendly gas stove. Link:

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Building with Tires

The 2005 California State Fair will include a design competition looking for ways to use scrap tires to make new building products. Link:

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Recycling plastic is not as green as you think

FOR many, plastic is one of humanity’s greatest sins against the environment, a wrong for which only recycling can atone. In the past five years, recycling rates have soared as greater awareness of the harm plastic causes has spread Link:

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FuelCell Energy Power Plant Running on Waste Byproduct to Generate Stable Electricity Source for Showcase Eco-Community in Japan

FuelCell Energy Power Plant Running on Waste Byproduct to Generate Stable Electricity Source for Showcase Eco-Community in Japan FuelCell Energy today announced that one of its 250-kilowatt Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plants, sold by its Asian distributor Marubeni Corporation, will supply power as part of the electric grid servicing a …

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City Trash Plan Forgoes Trucks, Favoring Barges

Three years after the closing of the mammoth Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, the Bloomberg administration has drawn up a 20-year plan to deal with the city’s residential waste by shipping the bulk of it elsewhere by barge, officials who have been briefed on the plan said yesterday. Link:

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Fuel-Gas Production from Waste Plastics

The Research Institute for Environmental Management Technology (RIEMT) of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, has developed direct gasification technology to obtain fuel gas derived from waste plastics. Link:

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China town pays price for European recycling

Guangzhou (China), Oct 1 (DPA) "This is one of the most polluted towns in China," complains migrant worker Li Lengen, cradling his 18-month-old daughter as he sits beside a flyblown pile of imported rubbish that represents his livelihood. Link:

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