Waste

• If you were one of the many amateur bakers who learned to bake sourdough bread during lockdown, you’ll know how complex a single loaf can be • The rise of the bread, moisture, fi

• Grocery retailers may not need new technology-or behavior change from shoppers-to meaningfully reduce food waste • New research in the journal Management Science finds that small

• Solutions to the plastic waste crisis are often pitched using words that can skew value judgments, new research argues. • The paper, authored by the Sustainable Materials Innovat

• Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. • The breakthrough offers

• Bio-inspired: Sunlight-powered iron catalyst converts plastic waste into vinegar A solar-powered iron catalyst turns plastic waste into acetic acid, offering a new upcycling path

• UNSW engineers have tackled a longstanding problem at the heart of global agriculture: how to make urea for fertilizer without the intensity of emissions associated with fossil-f

• One of the issues with nuclear power plants is that they produce long-lived radioactive waste. • Storing spent nuclear fuel is a real problem. • However, researchers at the Depar

• New method uses waste bread to replace fossil fuels in chemical manufacturing The microbially produced hydrogen successfully fueled the hydrogenation of target chemicals under mi

• New method converts old phones and paper industry waste into green battery tech Scientists have created a sustainable, cost-effective, and highly efficient solution that promotes

• US particle accelerators turn nuclear waste into electricity, cut radioactive life by 99.7% The system uses a particle accelerator to fire high-energy protons at a target, such a

• 60% efficient method: Chemical used to create much of world’s plastics produced from waste gas The method can be used with renewable energy sources to help pave the way for a gre

• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X In a Career column, Gerald Schweiger argues that one Horizon Europe funding call cost more in researcher and funder time than th

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