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How bricks made from sand and plastic waste are helping to fight pollution! By Roma O Plastic pollution is a worldwide problem. In Nairobi alone, about 500 metric tons of plastic waste are generated every single day. Only a fraction of this number is recycled. In true innovation fashion, finding a solution to this problem turned into an opportunity for Nzambi Matee, a material scientist who quit her job to pursue this new-found passion. |
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Clean fuel made by pulling CO2 from air and plastic waste. By Good News Network Cambridge University researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the sun. |
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IIT-Guwahati, NRL to develop By devdiscourse.com Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati on Monday said it has joined hands with Northeast's largest PSU refiner Numaligarh Refinery to develop environment-friendly sustainable plastics. |
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High-quality polyester textile products from valorisation of CO2 waste streams. By recycling-magazine.com Threading-CO2 aims to scale up and demonstrate its first-of-its-kind technology producing high-quality commercially viable sustainable PET textile products from CO2 waste streams at industrial scale. The overall objective of this research is to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the textile industry, using a circular manufacturing approach and running on renewable energy sources. |
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When plastic means more sustainable operations. By Graeme Burton Managing maintenance in such harsh conditions is time consuming and costly. Plastic pipe systems are our solution: they don’t suffer oxidation and consequential material degradation caused by contact with the general environment – inside or outside the pipe. That’s why our solutions have a minimum 25 year design lifespan. |
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Eco Bricks to beat plastic pollution. By Morung Express News The Eco Club of Fazl Ali College (FAC) in Mokokchung district came up with a simple low-tech solution by making eco-bricks with plastic waste from homes to reduce the amount of waste being disposed into landfills. These eco-bricks are being used to create planters, benches etc for college campus beautification. |
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That’s all for now. Issued in public interest by Indian Centre for Plastics in the Environment,
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